Save the output to a c program Variable

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I have a shell script program which gives some output. I need the output from the script and store in the c program.

I want to get some strings from some text files with awk.And,store the strings in virables of C program. — lixiaomeng, Jan 14 '13 at 07:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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Theres two ways you can do this:

Run the program from within the C program, using something like this: How to execute a command and get output of command within C++ using POSIX? The answer is written for C++ but it's all the same calls as in C.
Pipe the output of the other program into your C program. This means your C program won't be executed before the other program though. For example, the command:

ls | myprog

will take the output of "ls" and feed it into myprog, which can read it via scanf or fgets, for example.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Jan 14 '13 at 07:09

Verdagon

Good!! : @OP below I implementation of 2 option – Grijesh Chauhan Jan 14 '13 at 07:33

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