execlp.c

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/**
 * execlp.c
 *
 * Demonstration of execlp(3). While execvp(3) supports executing an array of
 * command line arguments, execlp takes a list of arguments directly while still
 * searching the path (unlike the execl(3) call we saw in our first fork.c
 * example).
 *
 * Compile: gcc -g -Wall execlp.c -o execlp
 * Run: ./execlp
 */

#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    /* Runs 'ls -l -a': */
    execlp("ls", "ls", "-l", "-a", NULL);

    return 0;
}