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From: "Xin Zou" <zouxin2008@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: command output to variables
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:54:17 +0800
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To: Jai Sharma <jai.unix@gmail.com>
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It's not easy to get output in C.
You can use pipe to get the result from standard output.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Jai Sharma <jai.unix@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I m PHP, Perl programmer , but finally I need C to program in LInux.
> In perl I simply use `` operator to get command output.
>
> $who_output = `who` ;
>
>
> but in C , how can i get the output. Using system function i m easily
> run the command. But how to get its output .
>
> system("who");
>
> Plz help
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