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So any program you could call usingsh -c "/path/to/program arg1 arg2 ... argn"can be called just the same.

Also, please make it a habit of reading the man pages first...

Because system() does not return the output of a script, but only the exit status. Eg. if instead of "./test" you'd run /bin/true (or /usr/bin/true), you'd always get 0, while with /bin/false you'd...

Quick example, will copy the contents of the files given on the command line to stdout, prefixed by the filename and the line number (yes, it's UUOC):#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char...

Start it using popen, and read from the returned file descriptor as you would from any other.