https://github.com/trobert42/pipex

Program coded in C that reproduces the behaviour of the shell pipe (|) command
https://github.com/trobert42/pipex

command execve infile outfile pipe

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

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/trobert42/pipex
• Owner: trobert42
• Created: 2023-08-31T20:38:15.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-26T16:16:50.000Z (9 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-26T17:37:05.034Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: command, execve, infile, outfile, pipe
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 32.2 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# 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

```bash

  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) 

```bash

./pipex file1 command1 command2 file2

```