redirect C output to shell (bash) input

Ive been up and down google all yesterday, and found this forum, and looked through here all morning and cant find a simple answer to this:

I want to redirect the output of some C code into a bash shell.
Basically I want to use C to open mpg321 and then process the keypresses to control the program.
I read that it was done by something like redirecting the output to "/dev/tty" but I havent figured out if thats even close.
If you have a short answer it would be greatly appriciated, or if you have a link where I can read up on it Id like that too.

Thanks!

You have a program which generates commands understood by mpg321 ?

If so, try
myprog | mpg321

Ok, Im at work slacking off right now so I dont have all my wonderful books with me. But am I correct in assuming that you mean I can do something along the lines of:

printf ("my code to pass to mpg321 here") | mpg321;

Also, how would I open mpg321 from within the C code? Basically if you can show me a way to pass text to a shell (bash in my case) and have it be interpretted as commands/input Im sure I can figure out the rest. I am working with linux, I think I remember something from a while back when I was using Boreland C++ with DOS that you could do something like (System, "command here"); and it would be interpretted as a command in DOS.

Thanks again!

popen() lets you pass commands from C to stdin of a bash script.

If you are passing arguments to mpg321, then use either system("mpg321 arg1 arg2");
or read up on fork(), execlp(), and waitpid().

Awesome, thats what I was looking for. Thanks for the quick replies. Ill read up on those other ones, because its not quite working how I want it to yet. Im trying to take input from a USB device to control mpg321, I can make the program start and play a song (hard coded) but I cant pause or stop while the song is playing, linux just buffers the commands until its done with the script that play the song, then dumps all of them at once.

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Ok, Im at work slacking off right now so I dont have all my wonderful books with me. But am I correct in assuming that you mean I can do something along the lines of:

printf ("my code to pass to mpg321 here") | mpg321;

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Not quite. Salem's advice was not for use inside of the program.

Say you have your bash shell, then enter the following into the shell:
$ myprog | mpg321

This will pipe your programs stdout to mpg321. (I believe it does the same with stderr, but I'm not positive on this.)

> I believe it does the same with stderr, but I'm not positive on this
A regular pipe just does stdout, though adding stderr is pretty easy - just read the bash manual for all the wacky syntax :)

Excellent. Thanks for all the help guys. I think Im where I want to be with this now.