need serious help with execv function

[myuss2]

hi everyone

i have an array of arguments (such as ls, wc, etc) stored in here

char * args[10][8];

so the first block(10) represents the different commands in the command family(
so args[0][0] is ls and args[1][0] is -l for the command family ls -l and so on

i can use execv command easily with a predefined char* args like so

char *argsx[] = {"ls", "-l", (char *) 0 };

but when i try to create on the fly from the argument array at top like this

while(1)
		{
		args1[c] = args[c][0];
		if(args[c][0] == NULL)
		break;
		c++;
		}

execv(str1, args1);

it won't work although it will for execv(str1, argsx), the predefined one. when i print the contents of args1 and argsx they are the same. what gives?

i reallllllly need help on this and would appreciate it
thanks


edit:
moreover,
with piping/fork/dup2 such that you can pipe shell commands in their own process,
how can you output to a file(like for the final command) using dup2?

thank you very much

[Rubberman]

Is this a school or class project? In any case, your problem is in misunderstanding the meaning of char* args[10][8] and how to initialize multi-dimensional arrays.

[myuss2]

yeah, the problem was a new line character in the original string from fgets function.