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Simulating the pipe "|" operator in C

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int fd[2]; if (pipe(fd) == -1) { return; } int pid1 = fork(); if (pid < 0) { return 2; } if (pid1 == 0) { // Child process 1 (ping) dup2(fd[1], STDOUT_FILENO); close(fd[0]); close(fd[1]); execlp("ping", "ping", "-c", "5", "google.com", NULL); } int pid2 = fork(); if (pid2 < 0) { return 3; } if (pid2 == 0) { // Child process 2 (grep) dup2(fd[0], STDIN_FILENO); close(fd[0]); close(fd[1]); execlp("grep", "grep", "rtt", NULL); } close(fd[0]); close(fd[1]); waitpid(pid1, NULL, 0); waitpid(pid2, NULL, 0); return 0; }
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