leonardkrief / pipex

pipex

The purpose of this project is to discover in detail the UNIX pipe mechanism.

Description of mandatory part

pipex goal is to reproduce the behaviour of the following shell command

$> < file1 cmd1 | cmd2 > file2

Execution command should be as follow:

$> ./pipex file1 cmd1 cmd2 file2

All errors like: wrong commands, permission to files and etc, must be handled.

Bonus part

Handle of multiple pipes

$> < file1 cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 | ... | cmdn > file2

$> ./pipex file1 cmd1 cmd2 cmd3 ... cmdn file2

Support << when instead of file1 is here_doc.

$> cmd1 << LIMITER | cmd2 > file2

$> ./pipex here_doc LIMITER cmd1 cmd2 file2