andonimarz / pipex

pipex

Final grade 115/100

Description

Solo – about 70 hours

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

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Mandatory
• Bonus

Installation

Clone this repository using the following command.

git clone https://github.com/andonimarz/pipex.git

Mandatory

Your program will be executed as follows:

./pipex file1 cmd1 cmd2 file2

It must take 4 arguments:

• file1 and file2 are file names.

• cmd1 and cmd2 are shell commands with their parameters.

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

$> < file1 cmd1 | cmd2 > file2

Bonus

You will get extra points if you:

• Handle multiple pipes.

This:

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

Should behave like:

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

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

This:

$> ./pipex here_doc LIMITER cmd cmd1 file

Should behave like:

cmd << LIMITER | cmd1 >> file