Writing my own shell… stuck on pipes?

Question

For the past few days I have been attempting to write my own shell implementation but I seem to have gotten stuck on getting pipes to work properly. I am able to parse a li

Answer 1

ok This is working for me. Hope this helps you:

/************************
function: void pipeCommand(char** cmd1, char** cmd2)
comment: This pipes the output of cmd1 into cmd2.
**************************/
void pipeCommand(char** cmd1, char** cmd2) {
  int fds[2]; // file descriptors
  pipe(fds);
  // child process #1
  if (fork() == 0) {
    // Reassign stdin to fds[0] end of pipe.
    dup2(fds[0], STDIN_FILENO);
    close(fds[1]);
    close(fds[0]);
    // Execute the second command.
    // child process #2
    if (fork() == 0) {
        // Reassign stdout to fds[1] end of pipe.
        dup2(fds[1], STDOUT_FILENO);
        close(fds[0]);
        close(fds[1]);
        // Execute the first command.
        execvp(cmd1[0], cmd1);
    }
    wait(NULL);
    execvp(cmd2[0], cmd2);
    }
    close(fds[1]);
    close(fds[0]);
    wait(NULL);
}