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user3266259

Reputation: 399

Making a shell in C, but can't get chdir to work?

I'm writing a shell in C that's supposed implement several commands, one of them being the change directory command. To change directories, I use chdir(), but every time I run my code, I get a segmentation fault (core dumped) error. Here's my code:

.....
........
char *shell;
while((shell=readline("shell> ") )){
char *cmd = strtok(shell," ");

if(strcmp(cmd,"ls")==0)
 {
    //do something
 }
 else if(strcmp(cmd,"print")==0)
 {
   //do something
 }
else if(strcmp(cmd,"cd")==0){

            char *directory = strtok(NULL," ");

            if(chdir(directory)==-1){
                printf("Error\n");
            }
            else
            {
                printf("changed directories!");
            }


        }
      add_history(shell);
 }

I think I might be using strtok incorrectly?

Any help is appreciated, thank you :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 880

Answers (1)

P.P
P.P

Reputation: 121397

This 

    char *directory = strtok(cmd," ");

should be

        char *directory = strtok(NULL," ");

When you call strtok() to get the next token, you pass NULL to it.

Moreover, strtok() is not re-entrant. So you can't use it even if your plan was to tokenize a different string. You can use strtok_r() on POSIX systems.

Upvotes: 1

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