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From: gp@picuxa.UUCP (Greg Pasquariello X1190)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: system
Message-ID: <452@picuxa.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 22:21:33 GMT
References: <127@dcrbg1.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Parsippany NJ
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Keywords: c program
Summary: how to use system

In article <127@dcrbg1.UUCP>, bcf2303@dcrbg1.UUCP (Wing Chow) writes:
> 
> can someone give me an example of how to use 'system' in a c program?

'System()' is a way to call an external process from within your C code.
The way you use it, is to pass it the process name e.g. system("ls -l"), or
system("sh -c") or if your forced to be running DOS (:-)) system("command");
This will have the effect of stopping your program, executing the command, and
returning control to your program.  On a UNIX system this is (almost) equi-
vilent to a:
		if(!fork())
			execlp("/bin/sh","sh","-c",command,0);
		wait()

Hope this helps.

Greg Pasquariello