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Learn C Programming

You're reading from   Learn C Programming A beginner's guide to learning C programming the easy and disciplined way

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789349917
Length 646 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: C Fundamentals
2. Running Hello, World! FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding Program Structure 4. Working with Basic Data Types 5. Using Variables and Assignment 6. Exploring Operators and Expressions 7. Exploring Conditional Program Flow 8. Exploring Loops and Iteration 9. Creating and Using Enumerations 10. Section 2: Complex Data Types
11. Creating and Using Structures 12. Creating Custom Data Types with typedef 13. Working with Arrays 14. Working with Multi-Dimensional Arrays 15. Using Pointers 16. Understanding Arrays and Pointers 17. Working with Strings 18. Creating and Using More Complex Structures 19. Section 3: Memory Manipulation
20. Understanding Memory Allocation and Lifetime 21. Using Dynamic Memory Allocation 22. Section 4: Input and Output
23. Exploring Formatted Output 24. Getting Input from the Command Line 25. Exploring Formatted Input 26. Working with Files 27. Using File Input and File Output 28. Section 5: Building Blocks for Larger Programs
29. Working with Multi-File Programs 30. Understanding Scope 31. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Method 2

In a terminal/console with a Unix shell (such as csh, tsh, bash, and so on), do the following:

  1. Create a simple program—for example,hello.c.
  2. Add the header file you want to find, and save it.
  3. In a bash command shell, execute the following:
          cc -H hello.c 2>&1 | grep '^\.\ '
        

This command, which looks like a lot of gobbledegook, is doing the following:

  1. It invokes the compiler with the -H option. The list of header files is sent to stderr.
  2. 2>&1 redirects stderr to stdout.
  3. stdout is then redirected via a pipe (|) to grep, a regular expression parser.
  4. grep is told to search the beginning of each line for <period><space>:
    • '…' is the search string.
    • ^ indicates the beginning of a line.
    • \. is a period (this is important as a dot (.) alone has special meaning in grep).
    • \ is a space (this is important...
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