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

Goals: This project aims to make you understand a bit deeper two concepts that you already know: the redirections and the pipes. It is an introduction project.

pipex, an emulation program of <, |, >, heredoc, <<, and >> in CLI, executes shell commands passed as arguments and redirects the result to the other file.

gcc -o pipex *.c -Llibft -lft

git clone the repository and execute the make command inside the cloned directory.

$ ./pipex <file1> <cmd1> <cmd2> ... <cmdn> <file2>
# Works as $ < <file1> <cmd1> | <cmd2> > file2

$ ./pipex here_doc <LIMITER> <cmd1> <cmd2> <file>
# Works as $ <cmd1> << <LIMITER> | <cmd2> >> <file>

./pipex infile "grep foo" "wc -l" outfile
./pipex infile cat cat cat cat cat outfile
./pipex here_doc END "grep foo" "wc -l" outfile

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