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CS111 Assignment 3: Stanford Shell

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Assignment inspiration and handout components from Randal Bryant and Dave O'Hallaron of Carnegie Mellon. Command line parsing tools by Truman Cranor. Also based on assignments by David Mazières, John Ousterhout and Jerry Cain. Modifications by Nick Troccoli. This assignment gives you a chance to implement a core tool that you've relied on all quarter - a fully-functional shell! This assignment leverages the shell code from lecture and extends it to support pipelines and I/O redirection. There's lots of neat code to write, and we hope you enjoy implementing such a core tool - this is how real shells work! The goal of this project is for you to get practice with the fork, execvp, waitpid and pipe system calls, as well as I/O redirection. This assignment will help you: To get started on the assignment, clone the starter project using the command This line creates a new folder called assign3 in your current working directory containing a copy of the starter code. For this assignment, you'l

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