Pipex

Description

Pipex is a project that focuses on handling pipes in C. The goal is to recreate the functionality of shell pipes, allowing the execution of commands with input and output redirection.

Arguments

The program takes 4 arguments:

./pipex file1 cmd1 cmd2 file2

• file1 and file2 are file names.
• cmd1 and cmd2 are shell commands with their parameters.

How to Use

1. Clone the repository
2. Run make to compile the project
3. Execute the program with the required arguments

for example

./pipex infile "ls -l" "wc -l" outfile
# Should behave like: < infile ls -l | wc -l > outfile

./pipex infile "grep a1" "wc -w" outfile
# Should behave like: < infile grep a1 | wc -w > outfile

./pipex file1 cmd1 cmd2 cmd3 ... cmdn file2
# Should behave like: < file1 cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 ... | cmdn > file2
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