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From: george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to issue a C SHELL command within a C program
Summary: Use system("csh -c ...");
Message-ID: <852@hls0.hls.oz>
Date: 17 Aug 90 00:02:40 GMT
References: <25279.26c7fd35@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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In article <25279.26c7fd35@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, jian@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> How can I issue a statment that executes a C SHELL command within a C program?

This works under SunOS 4.0.3 (and probably others):

	system("/bin/csh -c \"<command>\"");

system() calls /bin/sh, which in this case starts a `csh' to perform
<command>.  Note the \" around <command>.  Here is a quick example:

main()
{
	system("/bin/csh -c \"/bin/echo This command run by /bin/csh !\"");
	exit(0);
}

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