Linux File System Tree Simulator

Requirements (to compile it as a 32-bit executable)

• Linux 32-bit support libraries, you can install them with: sudo apt install gcc-multilib

Get started

• Compile (32-bit): gcc -m32 linux_file_system_tree_sim.c
• Run it and enjoy: ./a.out

Supported commands

1. mkdir <pathname> : create a new directory node in the file system tree;
2. rmdir <pathname> : remove an empty directory from the file system tree;
3. cd [<pathname>] : change the current working directory;
4. ls [<pathname>] : list the directory contents;
5. pwd : print the (absolute) path to the current working directory;
6. create <pathname> : create a new file node in the file system tree;
7. rm <pathname> : remove a file from the file system tree;
8. save <filename> : save the current file system tree as a text file (.txt);
9. reload <filename> : construct a file system tree from a well formatted text file;
10. menu : show the current help menu;
11. prompt <prompt> : change the command prompt text;
12. quit : save the file system tree as "file_system_tree.txt" and quit.

References

• Book: "System Programming in Unix/Linux" by K.C. Wang (2018)
• C naming conventions: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~eno/coding/CCodingStandard.html#stacknames