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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: System() function
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Date: 22 Oct 90 21:52:34 GMT
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  I fail to see how this has anything to do with Unix internals.  It is
clearly a question about programming under Unix, which means that it clearly
belongs in comp.unix.programmer.

  I've cross-posted to comp.unix.programmer and directed followups there.

In article <24826@adm.BRL.MIL>, vilva@csvax.csc.lsu.edu (Vilva Natarajan) writes:
|> I am trying to do system("man cat | wc -c") in my program, and i need
|> to store the value returned by "wc" in a variable declared in my program.

  Use popen("man cat | wc -c", "r"), which will return a FILE *, and you can
read the output of wc from the FILE *.  See popen(3).

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