Hi,
I am implementing a shell and would like to call specifically execv in the forked childs according to user input.
The user input however does not provide the extension for the commands that he inputs. For example, he provides "cat" but NOT "/bin/cat".
How should the extension be programmed into the execv system call? What is the manner most common manner?
Thanks.
You mean like it already can do - search a path
The functions execlp and execvp will duplicate the actions of the shell
in searching for an executable file if the specified file name does not
contain a slash (/) character. The search path is the path specified
in the environment by the PATH variable. If this variable isn’t speci‐
fied, the default path ‘‘:/bin:/usr/bin’’ is used.
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