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Imitation of UNIX cat&grep utilities

Implementations of Bash text utilities: cat, grep.

Implemented cat options

No. Options Description
1 -b (GNU: --number-nonblank) numbers only non-empty lines
2 -e implies -v (GNU only: -E the same, but without implying -v) but also display end-of-line characters as $
3 -n (GNU: --number) number all output lines
4 -s (GNU: --squeeze-blank) squeeze multiple adjacent blank lines
5 -t implies -v (GNU: -T the same, but without implying -v) but also display tabs as ^I

Implemented grep options

No. Options Description
1 -e pattern
2 -i Ignore uppercase vs. lowercase.
3 -v Invert match.
4 -c Output count of matching lines only.
5 -l Output matching files only.
6 -n Precede each matching line with a line number.
7 -h Output matching lines without preceding them by file names.
8 -s Suppress error messages about nonexistent or unreadable files.
9 -f file Take regexes from a file.

Build

Build utilities using Makefiles' commands

make imit_cat

grep imitation uses prce library for regex, so you need to download it

Use commands for Ubuntu/Debian

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev
make imit_grep

Run

 ./imit_cat [OPTIONS] [FILES]
 ./imit_grep [REGEX] [OPTIONS] [FILES]

Test

Integration tests compare the output of system calls of cat&grep with developed ones. To run tests do command from test directory

 ./test-script.sh

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