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naman arora
naman arora

Reputation: 51

Runing an external program from another program Linux or cygwin

I want to run a program which uses the output from another program. I tried calling system("myfile.exe") but the executable doesn't seem to be executed. I am using cygwin. How should I run myfile.exe from within my program?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 175

Answers (1)

Viorel Mirea
Viorel Mirea

Reputation: 399

In Cygwin using shell or bash scripts you can store the output of the first program into a variable.
For example we say that program1 is the "date" command and "echo" is the second program. In shell you use:
dt=`date`; will put the value returned by the date command into the variable dt. (grave accent executes the code and returns the output)
echo $dt prints the value of the variable dt

Upvotes: 1

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