running shell script using c programming

Question

hello every one I want to ask that I am making a program in which i have to run shell script using c program. up till now i have separated the arguments. and i have searched tha

Answer 1

Running a shell script from a C program is usually done using

#include 
int system (char *s);

where s is a pointer to the pathname of the script, e.g.

int rc = system ("/home/username/bin/somescript.sh");

If you need the stdout of the script, look at the popen man page.