calling another program alongwith arguments using execl not working
Hi,
Been at the problem for 2 long with no solution.Problem description : I have a core program written in GNU C having arguments where wild characters(-f file.*) is passed; the program uses getopt option to assess the arguments. This program is required to be called by a front end graphic interface built using libglade. I tried using execl and it's variants ; I have gone thru relevent man pages ; passing arguments and calling the program works with all other arguments except the ones where wild characters are used; Pl help :Pengy: |
Re: calling another program alongwith arguments using execl not working
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Simplest solution: Use system() instead of one of the exec..()-functions. System() does run the program inside a shell. If you cannot use system(), because its functionality is too limited for you purpose, check out these functions (ordered from most sophisticated, to most basic): man 3 wordexp man 3 glob man 3 scandir + man 3 fnmatch man 3 opendir + man 3 readdir + man 3 fnmatch Hope this helps. |
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