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Subject: Re: shell in programs
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Date: 12 Jan 91 11:18:50 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik)
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In article <!_P+_!_@irie.ais.org> ais.org!garath (Scott Grosch) writes:
>
>     If I make a C program on this account, is there any way to have the 
>program execute a shell command if a certain part of the program is reached?
>

A quick and dirty way is to use the system() subroutine, ie:

	system("cp myfile yourfile");

Another way is to use the fork() exec() yourself, such as:

	if ( fork() )
		wait(NULL);
	else
		execl("/bin/sh","sh","-c","cp myfile yourfile");
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