/tmp file duration program questions.

T. William Wells bill at twwells.com
Thu Feb 8 17:10:31 AEST 1990


In article <5474.25cddf6b at elroy.uh.edu> cosc6bp at elroy.uh.edu (A JETSON News User) writes:
:   . What command would I use to execute 'ls /tmp' from C?
:   . What is the most convenient way of routing the output from
:   'ls /tmp' back into the program so that it could be compared to the
:   array or linked list?  I think that a one line at a time feed would
:   be best.

Use popen(3).

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