📖 Pipex | 19 Brussels

💡 About the project

This project will let you discover in detail a UNIX mechanism that you already know by using it in your program.

💻 To use the program

you must first compile it with the makefile by using the command 'make' in the shell

make all

Then the program must be executed as follows:

./pipex file1 cmd1 cmd2 file2

Mandatory

It must take 4 arguments:

• file1 and file2 are file names.
• cmd1 and cmd2 are shell commands with their parameters.

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It must behave exactly the same as the shell command below:

 < file1 cmd1 | cmd2 > file2

Bonus

Handle multiple pipes.

Support « and » when the first parameter is "here_doc".

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It must behave exactly the same as the shells command below:

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

 cmd << LIMITER | cmd1 >> file