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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: /tmp file duration program questions.
Message-ID: <1990Feb8.061031.11287@twwells.com>
Date: 8 Feb 90 06:10:31 GMT
References: <5474.25cddf6b@elroy.uh.edu>
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In article <5474.25cddf6b@elroy.uh.edu> cosc6bp@elroy.uh.edu (A JETSON News User) writes:
:   . What command would I use to execute 'ls /tmp' from C?
:   . What is the most convenient way of routing the output from
:   'ls /tmp' back into the program so that it could be compared to the
:   array or linked list?  I think that a one line at a time feed would
:   be best.

Use popen(3).

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