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

Here's a tutorial on UNIX pipes, specifically about how to construct piplines in a shell-like architecture:

http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~mamrak/CIS762/pipes_lab_notes.html

Not much fully-written code, but it describes the concepts pretty well.

You could also download source code for virtually any shell, such as bash, tcsh, zsh, etc.