redirecting output to a file in C

Question

i coded a basic shell in C for executing basic commands it\'ll execute commands ls, ls -al , ls -al | more etc.

i want to exec

Answer 1

Before you call execve(2) in the newly created process to execute the command, you can redirect its standard input or output via the dup2(2) system call:

/* redirect stdout to a file */
dup2(1, some_open_file_descriptor);

Of course, you need to have some error handling.