pipex

Table of Contents

• About
• Getting Started
• Usage

About

This project is the discovery in detail and by programming of a pipe from UNIX.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

This project works only on Linux/MacOS platforms only.

Installing

To compile the program, you'll have to use your terminal and use the Makefile rules below:

• make -> Generates pipex and an object file for each .c
• make clean Deletes all object files
• make fclean Deletes the object files and the pipex
• make re makes fclean and make again

Usage

After compiling the program type the executable file and the commands you'd like to try them on.

./pipex infile “cmd1” “cmd2” “cmd3” … outfile

it will be the equivalent of in the bash environment:

< infile cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 | ... > outfile