pipex 💻

Simulating the pipe and redirection shell commands in C. An introductory project for bigger UNIX projects.

• Evaluation
• Mandatory part

Evaluation

Mandatory part

Program	Description	Libraries	External functions
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