Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!cbmvax!ag
From: ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Interfacing C Code to Shell Script
Keywords: popen
Message-ID: <11985@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 30 May 90 21:58:33 GMT
References: <23487@adm.BRL.MIL> <16870@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: ag@cbmvax (Keith Gabryelski)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix; West Chester, PA
Lines: 17

In article <16870@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
(Kartik Subbarao) writes:
>In article <23487@adm.BRL.MIL> rose@baby.swmed.utexas.edu (Rose Oguz) writes:
>>	I want to call a shell script from my C program.  However, I 
>>would like the script to return values to my C program.  Is there a
>
>Okay gang, even though many "official" unix.hackers out there might disagree,
>this one simply says that popen() is screaming for this job, just as it's
>supposed to :-).
>
>[lots of code deleted]

or just:

	int retval = system("myshellscript");

Pax, Keith