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Old 10-27-2006
ELECTRO ELECTRO is offline
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mini shell programming (help)

Hi All,
Well i m a taking an operating system course (newbie to unix)
we have studied till now: the fork () execv()
the teacher asked us to create a mini shell that execute a user command:

cmd1 [<input] [ !cmd2][>output]

he said everything in [] is optional we can use any combination

Well dudes , i m really in a big trouble,can someone help me to start writing the proram or telling me exactly what to do ??

thanks in advance
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