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is there any standard way to extract output from system(3) function?
TIA.

if possible to use pipe(2) how could file descriptor can be derived
from file pointer, FILE *. TIA.

am going to use

system("ls > /tmp/t");

v4vijayakumar wrote:
> is there any standard way to extract output from system(3) function?
> TIA.
>

<OT>
In a Posix system, use popen(3) instead
</OT>

Robert

"v4vijayakumar" <> writes:
> is there any standard way to extract output from system(3) function?
> TIA.

The C standard doesn't provide any way to do this, but your
implementation might. Try a system-specific newsgroup.

But first, please read <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/>.

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Robert Harris wrote:
> v4vijayakumar wrote:
>
>>is there any standard way to extract output from system(3) function?
>>TIA.
>>
>
>
> <OT>
> In a Posix system, use popen(3) instead
> </OT>

BTW: What is Posix???


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"v4vijayakumar" <> wrote:
# is there any standard way to extract output from system(3) function?

You have to save the output to a file within the command line,
and then open the file subsequently.
For example on unix, you can do something like
if (system("cat gloober/* >fripper")!=0) error(...);
FILE *fripper = fopen("fripper","r");
...
fclose(fripper);

POSIX systems also provide popen/pclose.
FILE *fripper = popen("cat gloober/*","r");
...
if (pclose(fripper)!=0) error(...);

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"Martin Jørgensen" <> wrote in message
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> Robert Harris wrote:
>> v4vijayakumar wrote:
>>
>>>is there any standard way to extract output from system(3) function?
>>>TIA.
>>>
>>
>>
>> <OT>
>> In a Posix system, use popen(3) instead
>> </OT>
>
> BTW: What is Posix???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX

-Mike

It seems that there is another way.

fclose (stdout);
stdout = fopen ("standard-output-file", "w");

system("ls");

/* process output file here */

v4vijayakumar wrote:
> It seems that there is another way.

Another way to do what? Google is most definitely *not* Usenet, just an
interface that dupes people in to making incorrect assumptions. Read
http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/Intro_to_clc and provide context in future.

> fclose (stdout);
> stdout = fopen ("standard-output-file", "w");
>
> system("ls");
>
> /* process output file here */

I've got no idea what you think the above will do, but I doubt it will
actually do what you think. For a start, there is no guarantee that
changing stdout within a program will affect where the output of a
program invoked using system goes.
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