How to execute other program within c program?
Dear All,
How to execute other program within a C program?
For example,
I have a one program. This program executes in command prompt as follows. The aguments of SNMP.exe program is "526" and "localhost".
C:\>SNMP.exe 526 localhost
I want to execute the "SNMP.exe" program within a C program using system() function or others.
Please give me simple example.
Thank you in advance.
ysko
Originally Posted by KoYoungSuk
okay.
use system() with the program name and argument, as its argument.
simple, huh?
Dear jephthah
Thank you for quick response.
Please more explain. Can you support the simpe example?
Thank you in advance.
Here is the example for using system(),
But it is not the efficient way in C .For efficiency use execlp.Code:#include<stdio.h> main() { system("test.exe 5434 localhost"); }
Last edited by karthigayan; 06-06-2010 at 10:51 PM.
Dear karthigayan,
Thank you for quick response.
If C program have a prameter, How to use the system function?
main (int argc, char **argv) {
system ("test.exe %s %s", argv[1], argv[2])
}
Is it right?
If by this you mean how do you call another program whose command line arguments are given as the command line arguments to your program, then yes.
1. Get rid of gets(). Never ever ever use it again. Replace it with fgets() and use that instead.
2. Get rid of void main and replace it with int main(void) and return 0 at the end of the function.
3. Get rid of conio.h and other antiquated DOS crap headers.
4. Don't cast the return value of malloc, even if you always always always make sure that stdlib.h is included.
There's FAQ on this
Cprogramming.com FAQ > Run a program from within a program
Dear jephthah,
Thank you for quick response.
contents of snmp.bat file
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snmptrap -v 1 -c public %1 .1.3.6.7.2.1.3.1 %2 1 6 ' .1.3.6.7.2.1.3.1.1.2 s '%3,%4,%5,%6'
contents of c file.
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execlp("snmptrap.exe","-v","1","-c","public","argv[0]",".1.3.6.7.2.1.3.1","argv[1]","1","6","'",".1.3.6.7.2.1.3.1.1.2","s","'"," argv[2]","argv[3]","argv[4]","argv[5]","'",0);
Is it possible?
Thank you in advance.
