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how do I store stdout value from system(); into a char* variable?
I may have found an example: #include <stdio.h> main() { FILE *fp; char line[130];/* line of data from unix command*/ fp = popen("ls -l", "r");/* Issue the command.*/ /* Read a line*/ while ( fgets( line, sizeof line, fp)) { printf("%s", line); } pclose(fp); } ----- everyoneca
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how do I store stdout value from system(); into a char* variable?
can you provide a short code example of popen(); storing the stdout value of "ls -la" or "netstat" into a char* type or string variable? thankyou for your help- everyoneca
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how do I store stdout value from system(); into a char* variable?
how do I store stdout value from system(); into a char* variable? e.g. I have child process that executes system(); function, but the output is displayed on server binary tty, I would like to store the output of system("ls -la"); into a char* variable for later use / display . is this...- everyoneca
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