How to issue a C SHELL command within a C program

Ambarish Malpani ambarish at gandhi.UUCP
Thu Aug 16 04:23:15 AEST 1990


In article <25279.26c7fd35 at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> jian at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>How can I issue a statment that executes a C SHELL command within a C program?
>I would appreciate any helps.
>
>Jian Q. Li
>jian at kuhub.cc.ukans.edu


Try using the system() library routine


eg. system("pwd");

Ambarish

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