Thread: system commands

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    Unhappy system commands

    Looking for information on how to get the output from a system command and put them into a variable. I am writing a short program, proof of concept to my self, on connecting to a DB2 data source. I am able to connect to the data source. I could crate a bind file and bind it to the DB but I want to try a different route and grap the out put from a system command to list the tables of the DB and keep them in a variable with out them showing on the screen. Any ideas. here is a snippet of my code to try just that. sloppy I know, just trying to get it going.


    void DB2Cmd(void)
    {
    char tables[50];

    strcpy(DB2Command,"db2 list tables");
    tables[0] = system(DB2Command);

    printf ("Name of tables %s ", tables[0]);

    printf("\n\n");
    }

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    There are better ways of doing this, depending on which operating system you are using.

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    At present I am working it on a Win 98 platform but I intend to get the most use out of it on a s/390 running linux.

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    In linux (and other unix-like) operating systems, you have popen

    Code:
    FILE *fp = popen( "db2 list tables", "r" );
    while ( fgets(buff,sizeof(buff), fp ) != NULL ) {
      // do stuff with line of output from the command
    }

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