Pipex

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🔍 Project Overview

The Pipex project is part of the 42 curriculum and focuses on:

• understanding UNIX processes,
• mastering file descriptors,
• using pipes, fork(), execve(), and dup2(),
• handling input/output redirection.

It’s an introduction to inter-process communication and how shell pipelines work internally.

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📁 Project Structure

pipex/
├── libft/
│   ├── ft_strlen.c
│   ├── ft_strdup.c
│   ├── ...
│   └── Makefile
├── child_utils.c
├── find_cmd.c
├── handler_error.c
├── mem_utils.c
├── pipex.c
├── pipex.h
├── Makefile
└── README.md

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▶️ Execution

./pipex infile "cmd1" "cmd2" outfile

Equivalent to the shell command:

< infile cmd1 | cmd2 > outfile

Example:

./pipex input.txt "grep hello" "wc -l" output.txt

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📄 License

This project is for educational purposes only and is part of the 42 Common Core curriculum. 42 Common Core curriculum,

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