Write a simple shell program in C. The shell program executes a loop to accept commands from the user and executes the command in a child process. This is a very basic version of a shell command program. You can assume that the executables for the commands that the user may enter do exist in the (/bin/) directory. The shell program is very basic, it does not support command line arguments nor advanced features such as piping.

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Write a simple shell program in C. The shell program executes a loop to accept commands from the user and executes the command in a child process. This is a very basic version of a shell command program. You can assume that the executables for the commands that the user may enter do exist in the (/bin/) directory. The shell program is very basic, it does not support command line arguments nor advanced features such as piping.

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