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Old 02-13-2009
input to Parent shell

how can we give input to parent shell?
i mean shell that is creating a child and our c prograame will run on that child..and then it return to parent shell..


what i want to do i want execute a c programe that will give command as input to parent shell & get output from parent shell and print it...
Smilie
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Old 02-14-2009
Code:
output=$(c_program)

echo $output

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