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From: steve@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (3171)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shell commands (vi) from fortran etc.
Message-ID: <154@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 28 Feb 88 00:50:10 GMT
References: <631@csm9a.UUCP>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Labs, Pasadena, CA
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From article <631@csm9a.UUCP>, by ngorelic@csm9a.UUCP (Noel Gorelick):
>      Anybody have any idea how I can invoke shell commands from
> a fortran and_or C program? Particularly, vi, mv, and chmod.

Use the system(3) call.  You pass a string with the shell command in
it, system(3) forks off a shell which executes the command and returns
when the shell is done.