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Old 04-08-2008
How to call C functions in shell scripts?
How can i call dynamic C functions in shell scripts?
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Old 04-08-2008
The question does not seem entirely well-defined. The normal way to use C code is to compile it into an executable. If you compile it into a shared libary, and have another (reasonably, C) application which can load a shared library and run an arbitrary function from that library, there you have it; but if I understand your question correctly, there is no standard solution to this problem (and indeed there hardly could be, as you cannot pass in arguments as native C types from the shell easily -- the abstraction levels are quite different).
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Old 04-08-2008
Hi Era...

I meant to say was that there is a c program which contains some functions which are called during runtime. Now i am writing a shell script which uses these functions. So how can i call these functions in my shell script?

Thanks in advance.
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Old 04-08-2008
You make your program such that you can tell it from the command line which function to run.
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Old 04-08-2008
Another approach is to use ksh93 and load your functions from a shared libary into the shell via the builtin -f command. However there is a fairly steep learning curve with this approach.
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Old 04-09-2008
Hi,

Please check the link below whether this is waht u are looking for

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ll-script.html

Thanks
Js
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