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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Using system function in C Post 302467168 by Corona688 on Thursday 28th of October 2010 12:03:14 PM
Old 10-28-2010
Okay. You can't insert variables inside strings like that because C is not a shell language. You have to create the string first, then call system with it. It's probably simplest to use sprintf.

Code:
char buf[1024];
// You can stick together "strings" "like" "this" to get "stringslikethis" which lets you 
// seperate one string across lines, like I'm doing with the two echo commands.
sprintf(buf, "echo '%s' ;"
             "echo '%s'",
        "string 1 which must not contain quote characters",
        "string 2 which must not contain quote characters");

fprintf(stderr, "calling system('%s')\n", buf);
system(buf);

Last edited by Corona688; 10-28-2010 at 01:08 PM..
 

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