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C Programs for Unix Command Imitation

The document outlines three exercises in C programming that involve system calls to imitate UNIX commands. Exercise 3.a focuses on replicating the 'ls' command to list directory contents, Exercise 3.b implements the 'grep' command to search for patterns in files, and Exercise 3.c demonstrates the process life cycle using fork and exec system calls. Each exercise includes an aim, algorithm, pseudocode, and confirms successful execution of the respective programs.

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C Programs for Unix Command Imitation

The document outlines three exercises in C programming that involve system calls to imitate UNIX commands. Exercise 3.a focuses on replicating the 'ls' command to list directory contents, Exercise 3.b implements the 'grep' command to search for patterns in files, and Exercise 3.c demonstrates the process life cycle using fork and exec system calls. Each exercise includes an aim, algorithm, pseudocode, and confirms successful execution of the respective programs.

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Exercise Number : 3.

a
Title: Imitate the action of “ls” command
Aim:
To execute a program for system calls which imitate the action of “ls” command in c program.
Algorithm:
Step1: Start the program
Step2: Declare the necessary header files,
Step3: Declare the structure
Step4: Open the file in read mode
Step5: Print the contents of the root directory
Step6: Close the file
Pseudocode:
struct dirent **namelist;
Declare int n,i,char pathname[100];
Use Function getcwd(pathname);
Calculate n = scandir(pathname, &namelist, 0, alphasort);
Check if(n < 0)
Print Error
else
Loop for(i=0; i<n; i++) if(namelist[i]->d_name[0] != '.')
namelist[i]->d_name
Exit
Output:

apache2 lock log mount node_modules programiz-oc [Link] secrets [Link].d shm swift-
[Link] systemd user

RESULT:

Thus, the C program to read the contents of the root directory is executed successfully.

Exercise Number : 3.b


Title: Use system calls to imitate the action of UNIX command "grep"
Aim:
To implement system calls to imitate the action of UNIX command "grep".
Algorithm:
Step1: Start the program.
Step2: Create struct dirent.
Step3: declare the variable buff and pointer dptr.
Step4: Get the directory name.
Step5: Open the directory.
Step6: Read the contents in directory and print it.
Step7: Close the directory.
Pseudocode:
Declare char fn[10], pat[10], temp[200];
Declare FILE *fp;
Assign fp = fopen(fn, "r")
Check while (!feof(fp))
Use Function fgets(temp, sizeof(fp), fp)
Check if (strcmp(temp, pat))
Print temp
Use Function fclose(fp);
Return 1
Output:
Enter file name : program.c
Enter the pattern: while
while (!feof(fp))
{
fgets(temp, sizeof(fp), fp);
if (strcmp(temp, pat))
printf("%s", temp);
}
Result:
Thus, the system call have been implemented successfully.

Exercise Number : 3.c


Title: Implement Process Life Cycle
Aim:
To implement Process Life Cycle in C Programming.
Algorithm:
Step1: Start the program.
Step2: Read the input from the command line.
Step3: Use fork() system call to create process, getppid() system call used to get the parent process
ID and getpid() system call used to get the current process ID
Step4: execvp() system call used to execute that command given on that command line argument
Step5: execlp() system call used to execute specified command.
Step6: Open the directory at specified in command line input.
Step7: Display the directory contents.
Step8: Stop the program.
Pseudocode:
Initiate Process pid_t pid;
Create Process pid = fork();
Check if(pid==0)
Invoke Function getpid()
Initialize int i=0;
Loop for(i=0;i<8;i++)
Print i
exit(0)
Check else if(pid > 0)
getpid()
Declare int status;
wait(&status);
Check else
exit(EXIT_FAILURE)
Return 0
Result:
Thus, the program for process life cycle is implemented successfully.

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