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From: chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: System() function
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Date: 26 Oct 90 04:34:52 GMT
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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.
>I dont want to redirect it to a file and then read from the file.
>Please advice.


Try looking in to popen() rater than system().  popen()
is the same thing except you get pipes to and from the
command.

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