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We want to implement the pipe functionality that bash provides for you. Your task is to develop a program called pipe (source code in pipe.c ) that accepts a series of arguments from command line that include commands, their arguments, and pipe operators (we use @ character as pipe operator to avoid conflict with shell pipes) between the commands. It then runs the programs one by one while redirecting a command's output as input to the next command using pipes very much like what bash does for you. For example, you can run your program with the following 5 arguments: pipe ls /usr/bin @ wc -l The above will perform the same as the following command run in bash (printing the number of files in /usr/bin ):