How to run a process with arguments, and trap its output, from C

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of jdubb at bucsf.bu.edu (jay dubb):
:   I am posting this for a friend of mine who doesn't have access
:to USENET, so please respond directly to mlevin at jade.tufts.edu.
:
:   How would I, from C on a BSD4.3 Unix system, run a shell command
:(with arguments, etc.) and trap its output (perhaps into a FILE *
:pointer so I can access it via the stdio functions)? Thanks in
:advance.

% man 3 popen


--tom

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