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Store output of system call to a variable
Hi, Writing a C program in unix, and I want to do this system call "system (uptime)" and store the output in a variable in C. Is it possible ? Or do I have to do something like this: "system(uptime > /tmp/file1)" and then read the file "file1" fom my C program...
