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Top Forums Programming C system() how to send the output to an array?? Post 302387957 by pludi on Tuesday 19th of January 2010 02:46:56 AM
Old 01-19-2010
With system(), you can't. It only returns the exit status of the process it ran, but not any of it's output on stdout or stderr. Take a loop at popen/pclose if you want to capture the output.
 

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POPEN(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  POPEN(3)

NAME
pclose, popen -- process I/O LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h> FILE * popen(const char *command, const char *mode); int pclose(FILE *stream); DESCRIPTION
The popen() function ``opens'' a process by creating a bidirectional pipe, forking, and invoking the shell. Any streams opened by previous popen() calls in the parent process are closed in the new child process. Historically, popen() was implemented with a unidirectional pipe; hence, many implementations of popen() only allow the mode argument to specify reading or writing, not both. Because popen() is now imple- mented using a bidirectional pipe, the mode argument may request a bidirectional data flow. The mode argument is a pointer to a null-termi- nated string which must be 'r' for reading, 'w' for writing, or 'r+' for reading and writing. The command argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string containing a shell command line. This command is passed to /bin/sh, using the -c flag; interpretation, if any, is performed by the shell. The return value from popen() is a normal standard I/O stream in all respects, save that it must be closed with pclose() rather than fclose(). Writing to such a stream writes to the standard input of the command; the command's standard output is the same as that of the process that called popen(), unless this is altered by the command itself. Conversely, reading from a ``popened'' stream reads the command's standard output, and the command's standard input is the same as that of the process that called popen(). Note that output popen() streams are fully buffered, by default. The pclose() function waits for the associated process to terminate; it returns the exit status of the command, as returned by wait4(2). RETURN VALUES
The popen() function returns NULL if the fork(2) or pipe(2) calls fail, or if it cannot allocate memory. The pclose() function returns -1 if stream is not associated with a ``popened'' command, if stream already ``pclosed'', or if wait4(2) returns an error. ERRORS
The popen() function does not reliably set errno. SEE ALSO
sh(1), fork(2), pipe(2), wait4(2), fclose(3), fflush(3), fopen(3), stdio(3), system(3) BUGS
Since the standard input of a command opened for reading shares its seek offset with the process that called popen(), if the original process has done a buffered read, the command's input position may not be as expected. Similarly, the output from a command opened for writing may become intermingled with that of the original process. The latter can be avoided by calling fflush(3) before popen(). Failure to execute the shell is indistinguishable from the shell's failure to execute command, or an immediate exit of the command. The only hint is an exit status of 127. The popen() function always calls sh(1), never calls csh(1). HISTORY
A popen() and a pclose() function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. Bidirectional functionality was added in FreeBSD 2.2.6. BSD
May 3, 1995 BSD
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