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Old 08-05-2005
invoking an Unix script from a C Program
How to invoke an Unix Script from C program?

(or)

How to invoke another C program from a C program?


thanks
Karthik
# 2  
Old 08-05-2005
you can use system() or exec/spawn function families. check out the man pages for their details.
# 3  
Old 08-05-2005
You can also call popen() / pclose() if you want to be able to have continuing input or get feedback.
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Old 08-08-2005
Thanks a lot to repliers.

Karthik
# 5  
Old 08-29-2005
reading data
hi
i would like to know ,how i can can read from a file bu using a script
and genrating the content of the file

thanks
# 6  
Old 08-29-2005
Code:
#/bin/ksh
while read record
do
    echo "$record"
done < /path/to/inputfile

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