How to use shell commands in c program

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Asked 6 years, 6 months ago. Active 6 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 10k times. Shivam Upadhyay. Shivam Upadhyay Shivam Upadhyay 79 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. You want to run a DOS command on unix? You must be specific too, do you want to handle the output of the program? Example usage: system "dir" ; — R Sahu. No not on Unix sorry. Just plain C program on windows to run dos commands like say dir,del,creating a file and everything else I am just learning now so don't really have to do much with the output Running those commands is all I need as of now — Shivam Upadhyay.

You are asking how to run shell commands on the Windows shell Command Prompt or "cmd. I am really starting from scratch here — Shivam Upadhyay. Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. This should run and add any parameter you like in the newArg string.

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