Segmentation fault when trying to run custom shell - c

Question

School project to make our own shell and facing segmentation fault issues.
Can someone help?
Edit: kind of running but "quit" doesn't trigger the exit and execvp can't run properly (says : "no such file or directory" & "or ls:invalid option -- ' "
void interactive_mode();
void batch_mode(char *path);
void parse(char *str,char *delimiter, char **args);
int execute(char **args);
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if(strcmp(argv[1], "-b") == 0) {
batch_mode(argv[2]);
}
else if(strcmp(argv[1], "-i") == 0) {
interactive_mode();
}
}
I suspect the segmentation fault problem derives from the interactive and batch modes code
void interactive_mode() {
int quit_flag;
char str[512];
char *commands[128];
char *args[128];
quit_flag = 0;
while(1) {
printf("whatever> ");
if (fgets(str,512,stdin) == NULL) {
exit(0); //error reading
}
int i = 0;
parse(str,";",commands); //split the string into commands eg "ls -a ; ls -l" -> "ls -a ","ls -l"
while (commands[i]!=NULL) {
parse(commands[i]," ",args); //split commands into arguments eg "ls -l" -> "ls","-l"
i++;
quit_flag = execute(args);
}
if (quit_flag == 1)
exit(1);
}
}
Trying to read from file:
void batch_mode(char *path) {
FILE *fp;
char str[512];
char *commands[128];
char *args[128];
int res;
fp = fopen(path,"r");
if (fp == NULL) {
perror("Error opening file");
exit(4); //file not open
}
while(1) {
if (fgets(str, 512, fp) == NULL)
break;
int i = 0;
parse(str, ";", commands);
while (commands[i] != NULL) {
parse(commands[i], " ", args);
i++;
res = execute(args);
}
}
fclose(fp);
printf("whatever>Press Any Key to Continue\n");
getchar();
}
Parsing strings:
void parse(char *str, char *delimiter, char **args) {
char *pch;
int i = 0;
pch = strtok(str,delimiter);
while (pch != NULL) {
args[i] = pch;
i++;
pch = strtok(NULL, delimiter);
}
args[i] = NULL;
}
Executing with fork:
int execute(char **args) {
char path[50];
pid_t pid;
int status;
if(strcmp(args[0],"quit")==0) return 1; //exited by quit
strcpy(path,"/bin/");
strcat(path,args[0]);
if ((pid = fork()) < 0) {
perror("fork failed");
exit(2);
}
else if (pid == 0) {
if(execvp(path, args) < 0) {
perror("execvp failed");
exit(3);
}
}
else {
while (wait(&status) != pid) /* wait for completion */
;
}
}
Please help?

Answer 1

Have you tried to print all your variables argv, str, commands ... To make sure all is going on as expected there ? It could also help you locate in your script where you segfault. It will take you time, sorry I have no quick answer. For starterprintf("%d", __LINE__) would print the line number you are at, don't forget to add an explicit statement.
Otherwise you could use gdb. There is quite a learning curve, but it could be useful for another project.