42-pipex

Redirections and pipes.

Pipex is a program that replicates the behavior of doing < infile cmd1 | cmd2 > outfile in bash, or even < infile cmd1 | ... | cmdn > outfile.

The program will receive al least 4 arguments where the first one will be the input file from it will read, and the last one will be the output file that will contain the final outputs.

./pipex infile cmd1 cmd2 cmd3 outfile

See the wiki for documentation.

Usage

Clone the project

git clone --recursive [email protected]:Aryalexa/42-pipex.git

Compile the files and generate the pipex executable.

make

Examples of usage:

./pipex infile "ls -l" "wc -l" outfile
./pipex infile "grep a1" "wc -w" outfile