Pipex Project

42 Yerevan Pipex
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📜 About Project · 🔷 Mandatory Part · 🌟 Bonus Part · 👨‍💻 Usage

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📜 About Project

This pipex program takes an input file, performs a command on it, pipes the result to another command which then writes its result to an output file. The result is virtually identical to this kind of shell command.

For detailed information, refer to the subject of this project.

🚀 TLDR: Pipex is a 42 School project aimed to better understand shell redirection and 
	 pipes, by handling them in C.

Note

Because of 42 School norm requirements:

• Each function can't have more than 25 lines of code.
• All variables are declared and aligned at the top of each function.
• Project should be created just with allowed functions otherwise it's cheating.

🔷 Mandatory Part

The program pipex should repeat the behavior of the next shell command:

$> < file1 cmd1 | cmd2 > file2

and looks like this:

$> ./pipex file1 cmd1 cmd2 file2

Note

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

🌟 Bonus Part

Program needs to handle multiple pipes:

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

and looks like this:

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

👨‍💻 Usage

Requirements

The program is written in C language and thus needs the gcc compiler and some standard C libraries to run.

Instructions

1. Compiling the program

To compile the program, run:

$ cd path/to/pipex && make

2. How to run the program

Run the executable with commands of your choice:

./pipex input "cat" "wc -l" output

Use clean to delete all object files, fclean to remove executable and all object files, and re to recompile the program:

make clean / make fclean / make re