I am creating a Linux type shell program for a school project. So far I have implemented the basic Linux external commands like "ls","ps", etc., using execvp and basic pipes. As part of the project, the user can either run the program in interactive mode or batch mode. In interactive mode the user just enters a command when prompted. For batch mode, the user specifies a file in the command line where there is a list of commands to execute.
The problem I am having is in batch mode. In batch mode, if an invalid command is listed (e.g. "kdfg", for which "kdfg: command not found" while be the output), everything afterward continues, but everything afterward is executed twice. so if I have a "kghd" on one line and the next line is "ls", then the "ls" command will be executed twice. I've literally been looking at my code for hours and have tried a bunch of stuff, but to no avail.
My code is displayed below:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include<sys/wait.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
char* InputString();
char** GetArgs(char* com);
void Free(char** args);
char** GetCommands(char** line);
void PipedCommands(char* line);
int batch = 0; //Acts as bool for if there is a batch file given at command line
FILE* bFile; //This is just to make a quick tweek to the file if necssary to prevent any undefined behavior and keep track of where we are in the fil.
int b_fd;
int stdin_cpy;
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
pid_t pid;
int status;
int fd;
int exitCom = 0; //acts as bool to check if an exit command was given.
char* line;
if(argc > 1) //check if batch file was given.
{
/*
if(freopen(argv[1], "r", stdin) == NULL) //I added this in case the file isn't found
{
printf("\nCould not open \"%s\". Terminated\n\n", argv[1]);
exit(1);
}
*/
//The following is to append a newline at the end of the file (if there isn't one).
//For some reaosn, there seems to be some undefined behavior if the input file isn't
//stricitly ended with a newline.
bFile = fopen(argv[1], "r+"); //open for reading and updating
if(bFile == NULL)
{
printf("\nCould not open \"%s\". Terminated\n\n", argv[1]);
exit(1);
}
fseek(bFile, -1, SEEK_END); //go to last character of file
if(fgetc(bFile) != '\n') //If last character is not a newline, append a newline to the file.
{
fprintf(bFile, "\n");
}
fclose(bFile); //close the file.
bFile = fopen(argv[1], "r"); //open file to keep track of when it ends
b_fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); //open file again (with file descriptor this time) to duplicate it to stdin
stdin_cpy = dup(fileno(stdin)); //keep track of stdin file.
dup2(b_fd, 0); //duplicate to stdin so program takes input from bFile
close(b_fd);
batch = 1;
}
//int i=0; //this was used for debugging purposes
while(1)
{
printf("\n");
char** coms = GetCommands(&line);
for(int i=0; coms[i] != NULL; ++i) //loop goes through each command returned from GetCommands(...)
{
//fork and wait.
pid = fork();
wait(&status);
if(pid == 0)
{
int pipedCommand = 0;
//printf("\ncoms[%d]: %s\n", i, coms[i]);
for(int j=0; j<strlen(coms[i]); ++j)
{
if(coms[i][j] == '|')
{
pipedCommand = 1;
break;
}
}
if(pipedCommand == 1)
{
PipedCommands(coms[i]);
exit(1);
}
char** args = GetArgs(coms[i]);
//printf("\nargs[0]: %s\n", args[0]);
if(strcmp(args[0],"exit") == 0)
{
exit(5); //if exit command was given, exit status will be 5 (I just used 5 becuse I felt like it).
}
//printf("\nNo exit\n");
printf("\n");
execvp(args[0],args);
printf("%s: command not found\n", args[0]);
exit(1); //Normal exit exits with 1 or 0.
}
//Parent continues after child exits
else if(pid > 0)
{
//check exit status of child
if(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 5)
exitCom = 1; //set bool exitCom to 1 (true), indicating that the exit command was given
}
}
if(pid > 0)
{
free(line);
free(coms);
//Now that all commands in the line were executed, check exitCom and if it is 1 (exit command was given), the shell can now exit.
if(exitCom == 1)
{
printf("\n");
exit(0);
}
}
/*
if(i >= 5)
{
printf("\nFORCED EXIT\n"); //this was used for debugging purposes
exit(1);
}
++i;
*/
}
return 0;
}
char* InputString()
{
int len = 20;
char* str = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*len);
char* buff;
unsigned int i=0;
if(str != NULL)
{
int c = EOF;
//printf("%c", fgetc(bFile));
while( ((c = getchar()) != '\n') && (c != EOF) )
{
/*
//printf("%c", fgetc(bFile));
//fgetc(bFile);
if(feof(bFile))
{
printf("\n\nEnd of the line\n\n");
}
*/
str[i++] = (char)c;
if(i == len)
{
len = len*2;
str = (char*)realloc(str,sizeof(char)*len);
}
}
str[i] = '\0';
buff = (char*)malloc(i);
}
if(batch == 1)
{
if(fgets(buff, i, bFile) == NULL) //Once the end of file has been reached
{
dup2(stdin_cpy, 0); //revert input back to original stdin file so user can now enter commands interactively (this happens if exit command was not given)
close(stdin_cpy); //close stdin_copy
fclose(bFile); //close bFile as we have reached the end of it
batch = 0;
}
}
printf("\n");
return str;
}
//User enters a line of commands (1 or more). Commands are separated with a ';' being the delimeter.
char** GetCommands(char** line)
{
char** coms = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*));
char delim[] = ";";
if(batch == 0)
printf("prompt> ");
fflush(stdout);
*line = InputString();
if(batch == 1)
printf("%s\n", *line);
strcat(*line, ";");
int i=0;
coms[i] = strtok(*line, delim);
while(coms[i] != NULL)
{
++i;
coms = (char**)realloc(coms, sizeof(char*) * (i+1));
coms[i] = strtok(NULL, delim);
//printf("\ni: %d\n", i);
}
return coms;
}
//A command obtained from GetCommands(...) is separated into various arguments with a space, ' ', being the delimiter.
char** GetArgs(char* com)
{
char** args = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*));
char delim[] = " ";
//printf("\nline: %s\n", line);
int i=0;
args[i] = strtok(com, delim);
while(args[i] != NULL)
{
++i;
args = (char**)realloc(args, sizeof(char*) * (i+1));
args[i] = strtok(NULL, delim);
}
return args;
}
void PipedCommands(char* line)
{
char** coms = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*));
int numComs;
char delim[] = "|";
int i=0;
coms[i] = strtok(line, delim);
while(coms[i] != NULL)
{
++i;
coms = (char**)realloc(coms, sizeof(char*) * (i+1));
coms[i] = strtok(NULL, delim);
}
numComs = i;
int fd[2];
pid_t pid;
int status;
int prev_p = 0;
// printf("\nnumComs: %d\n", numComs);
for(int i=0; i<numComs; ++i)
{
//printf("\ni: %d\n", i);
pipe(fd);
pid = fork();
wait(&status);
if(pid == 0)
{
//printf("\nChild\n");
if(i < numComs-1)
{
//printf("\ni < numComs-1\n");
//printf("%s", coms[i]);
//printf("coms[%d]: %s", i, coms[i]);
//printf("\nBefore dup2\n");
char** args = GetArgs(coms[i]);
//printf("\nexecvp in if\n");
if(prev_p != 0)
{
dup2(prev_p, 0);
close(prev_p);
}
dup2(fd[1], 1);
close(fd[1]);
execvp(args[0],args);
printf("%s: command not found\n", args[0]);
exit(3);
}
else
{
//printf("\nelse\n");
//printf("coms[%d]: %s", i, coms[i]);
//printf("\nBefore dup2 in else\n");
if(prev_p != 0)
{
dup2(prev_p, 0);
close(prev_p);
}
//close(fd[0]);
close(fd[1]);
char** args = GetArgs(coms[i]);
printf("\n");
execvp(args[0],args);
printf("%s: command not found\n", args[0]);
exit(3);
}
}
close(prev_p);
close(fd[1]);
prev_p = fd[0];
if(WEXITSTATUS(status) == 3)
{
close(fd[0]);
close(prev_p);
close(fd[1]);
return;
}
}
close(fd[0]);
close(prev_p);
close(fd[1]);
}
You can probably ignore the PipedCommands(...) function as I do not think the problem lies there.
Below is a simple batch file:
kldfg
whoami
Below is the output using the above batch file
kldfg
kldfg: command not found
whoami
jco0100
whoami
jco0100
The whoami command should only execute once, but it appears to execute twice. After that, the program reverts to interactive mode as it should and everything runs fine from there. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening. This only happens when an unknown command is entered. If all commands in the batch file are valid, nothing is outputted twice. It's only for batch files that have an unknown command that all commands after the unknown one are outputted twice.
Here's another example:
Batch file:
date
kldfg
whoami; ls | wc -l
date | wc -c
Output:
date
Tue Apr 13 19:43:19 CDT 2021
kldfg
kldfg: command not found
whoami; ls | wc -l
jco0100
34
date | wc -c
29
whoami; ls | wc -l
jco0100
34
date | wc -c
29