trobert42 / pipex

Program coded in C that reproduces the behaviour of the shell pipe (|) command

Pipe operator

Pipex reproduces the behaviour of the shell pipe | command in C. It launches as ./pipex infile cmd1 cmd2 outfile and behaves as this line does in the shell < infile cmd1 | cmd2 > outfile.

Project Name	pipex
Description	My implementation of the pipe operator
Technologies
External libraries	open(), close(), read(), write(), malloc(), free(), perror(), strerror(), access(), dup(), dup2(), execve(), exit(), fork(), pipe(), unlink(), wait(), waitpid()

Usage

  gcl https://github.com/trobert42/pipex.git
  cd pipex
  make

Make sure you create file1 as input and the output will be displayed on the existing file2 (or it will be created)

./pipex file1 command1 command2 file2