Thread: Getting Text from Console commands

Hey,

I dunno if this is the best way, but it works. Call the dos command with system() or CreateProcess() or whatever you want to use, and send the command/results out to a temp file that your prog can delete when its finished:

Code:

system("dir >> c:\test.txt");

You now have the info you need in c:\test.txt, however this does pop up the annoying console box, you would need to use a different function to do that.

Now you would just need to read in test.txt into a varible, and then delete it with DeleteFile("c:\test.txt");

I would tell you how to read in but i cant remember the code offhand, sorry but let me know if you need it


Hope that helps,
TNT

You can do as suggested above....but a more professional way to do it is to use the feature provided with CreateProcess...you can run the command without creating a consol...and also give custom handles for stdin & stdout - and then just read these handles and handle the IO yourself


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