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Old 09-27-2010
Invoke unix script using c program
hi

i want to invoke a unix script in a C program and also return some value from the script to the C program to use that value further.

Basically i am doing a Lookup operation in this unix script and returning the looked up data from a oracle database table..

please help me invoke as well as return dat from the script to C program.
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Old 09-27-2010
A general answer -
1. Preferred answer - develop Pro*C application that does what your sql script does

2. use popen in read mode to execute a shell script; as the shell script generates text you can read the data from a file descriptor.

popen example:
Code:
char tmp [1024]={0x0};
FILE *in=popen("/path/to/myshellscript.sh", "r");
while fgets(tmp, sizeof(tmp), in)!=NULL)
{
        // tmp contains one line of data process with it here
}
pclose(in);

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