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pipex Simulating the pipe and redirection shell commands in C. An introductory project for bigger UNIX projects.
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Mandatory part
Program | Description | Libraries | External functions |
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pipex | Produces output to outfile after the execution of two shell commands, simulating pipe and redirection . |
fcntl.h, stdlib.h, unistd.h, sys/types.h, sys/wait.h, string.h | access, open, write, unlink, close, malloc, waitpid, free, pipe, dup2, execve, fork, strerror, exit |
< infile cmd1 | cmd2 > outfile #real usage
./pipex infile "cmd1" "cmd2" outfile #program usage
Clone and compile:
git clone https://github.com/denisgodoy/42-pipex.git pipex
cd pipex
make all
Create an infile with the content you want, choose two commands and execute the program:
./pipex infile "ls -la" "wc -l" outfile