Unix Utilities
In this project, you'll build a few different UNIX utilities, simple versions of commonly used commands like cat, ls, etc. We'll call each of them a slightly different name to avoid confusion; for example, instead of cat, you'll be implementing my-cat.
Objectives:
- Re-familiarize yourself with the C programming language
- Learn a little about how UNIX utilities are implemented
- Learn (as a side effect) how to use a proper code editor such as emacs
my-cat
The program my-cat is a simple program. Generally, it reads a file as specified by the user and prints its contents. A typical usage is as follows:
my-cat main.c
In this case, my-cat will read the file main.c and print out its contents.
You'll need to learn how to use a few library routines from the C library to implement the source code for this program, which we'll assume is in a file called my-cat.c.