How to read the cmd output as Input in C using System()

Asked Jun 30 '17 at 07:09

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Is this possible to get the cmd output as input in C using system()?. I want to read the output of the cmd as input.

For Ex. The command in system("echo %username%"); will result the current logged user name as output like Prasanthvel. I just want to read the output and store in a string to do some program.

Note : I don't want to save it into a text file, and this question is different from other questions in this forum or the answers were not sufficient to do this.

asked Jun 30 '17 at 07:09

Prasanthvel

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read about `popen()` – Stargateur Jun 30 '17 at 07:10
Hi @Stargateur I Need to do it with `system()` function not with `popen()` – Prasanthvel Jun 30 '17 at 07:13
@some programmer dude. That answer was not sufficient to do this. – Prasanthvel Jun 30 '17 at 07:14
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It's not possible with `system`, unless you want to redirect the output to a file that you later read. That's it. End of story. Full stop. – Some programmer dude Jun 30 '17 at 07:17

How to read the cmd output as Input in C using System()

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