redirect console output to a String?

Hi all,

I am new to C and am writing a small application in C. One part of it is to fire some system commands and store the output in some variable.

A small example of what i wanna do:

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int main(void)
{
      return system("ifconfig | grep 'inet addr'");
}

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now i want to store the output of system() in a string (or an array of String). I tried out many things but nothing seems to work.

Will be very happy if somebody could help me out in this :)

you can use the POSIX standard (I think) popen command, which lets you redirect input and output of a program to your program. But it's not standard C or C++.

Google for it.

nice place to look for that kind of stuff(they have examples alot of times!)

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/...ons/popen.html

Thanks a lot for your help. I have finally constructed the following code snipet which works fine. As i am a beginner i post it here hoping for the betterment of the code.

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        FILE *pipein_fp;
        char readbuf[80];

        if (( pipein_fp = popen("xyz", "r")) == NULL)
        {
                perror("popen");
                exit(1);
        }

        while(fgets(readbuf, 80, pipein_fp))
                printf(readbuf, "%c");

        pclose(pipein_fp);

        return(0);

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I was interested to know if there is some more elegent way to get the IP Address of the host other then firing ifconfig through popen and then parsing the string to get the IP.

I googled around and found out funtions like gethostname(), gethostbyname() etc. My (little) understanding which i got after hours of googling was that these functions try to find out the IP through some DNS. Maybe i am wrong.

If not, is there any other way by which i can get the IP of the host.

If i am wrong can someone explain (with an example) how these functions would work.

Thanks a Lot in Advance.

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Originally Posted by TwistedMetal

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printf(readbuf, "%c");

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printf("%s", readbuf);

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See the example in zxcv's link.

Thanks Robwhit.

Can somebody provide some help regarding finding the IP Address please.

gethostbyname etc are the functions you are looking for...
so search for the sample using these functions, do not forget - this sample should use the Winsock 2 dll (ws_32.dll if I remember correctly the spelling of the name - msnd will give you correct lib name to include in a project)

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Originally Posted by TwistedMetal

Thanks Robwhit.

Can somebody provide some help regarding finding the IP Address please.

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You could pass the current hostname to gethostbyname() but this is not guaranteed to be the actual address of the hardware interface (for instance, if the hostname is misconfigured). How you get this address is going to vary from platform to platform. Calling ifconfig is not actually a terribly bad way to do it. ifconfig also gives you tons of other info as well.

Hi all,

Does anybody has some idea why this piece of code

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int setIP(char fName[100])
{
        FILE *pipein_fp;
        char readbuf[100];
        char cmd[] = "vmware-cmd ";
        char var[] = " setguestinfo ip 68.180.53.46";
        strcat(cmd, fName);
        strcat(cmd, var);

        if (( pipein_fp = popen(cmd, "r")) == NULL)
        {
                perror("popen");
                exit(1);
        }

        while(fgets(readbuf, 100, pipein_fp))
                printf("%s", readbuf);

        pclose(pipein_fp);

        printf("Server IP for VM set successfully");
        return(0);

}

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is generating the following error

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setguestinfo(ip 68.180.53.46) = 1
*** stack smashing detected ***: ./TCPEchoServer terminated
Server IP for VM set successfullyAborted (core dumped)

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Thanks

strcat(cmd, fName); you do not have place in the cmd to add there even one byte
change cmd declaration so the buffer be big enough to store the resulting string