Pipex is a 48-hour project at Codam Coding college located in Amsterdam. In this project we needed to recreate the UNIX Pipeline. In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing. We recreate this by creating temporary processes inbetween, so that the output of process 1, is directly used as input for process 2.

Getting Started

Run make, and my makefile will compile a binary called “pipex”. run this binary, and you can now specify the files from which to read, and the commands to use.

e.g.

./pipex
Usage: ./pipex file1 cmd1 cmd2 file2