(Zig) "Build your own shell" - stage "The Type builtin executable"

[rite2hamed]

Discovered while running “Run a program stage”.
The test runners’ type cat is getting failed, when I run the same on my machine it’s always generating expected output as below:

I’m using yours git repo: [censored]

I tried all my debug avenues but availed no success, any help in this regard is appreciated

Regards
~Hamed

[andy1li]

Hi @rite2hamed, I can barely read Zig.

The code currently fails at stage #MG5, but it successfully passed earlier. Could you check out the last successful version and compare what might have gone wrong?

git checkout bdd10f3e33c01d7524b50c215bdd91090927a2d2

[rite2hamed]

@andy1li

bdd10f3e33c01d7524b50c215bdd91090927a2d2

I refactored my code, does your test harness needs an elevated permissions, it doesn’t seem to find /bin/cat (from my screen shot)

On my machine it’s printing as expected cat is /bin/cat (from my screen shot)

[andy1li]

does your test harness needs an elevated permissions,

In short, no.

It’s likely that your refactor introduced an unintended bug, as the previous commit (bdd10f3e33c01d7524b50c215bdd91090927a2d2) passed successfully.

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In fact, the refactor is actually no longer passing the second stage #CZ2 (Handle invalid commands).

Suggestions:

1. Use our CLI to test against previous stages by running:

codecrafters test --previous

2. Focus on fixing the early stages first, as later stages depend on them.