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Is there something like ShellExecute in linux??

I am porting a windows application written in VC++ to linux that uses a function ShellExecute to perform an operation on a file, Can anybody tell me the alternative in linux C++, I also want to open some document from my program as with ShellExecute in Windows.

cppkid; am assuming you are not unfamilar with programming. recommend
Linux Programming-A beginner`s guide. excellent coverage on all shell,s. also open all subsections of http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/ section
4.6Programming subsections 4.6.1 through 4.6.10. and please expand all sections including subsection for detailed information.

That depends...
If it is a KDE or Gnome (or maybe XFCE) application, this should be possible. If it's just a plain X-windows, GTK, SDL, Qt, or whatever "normal" (i.e. non-desktop evironment) toolkit, you would need to program you own file-type-to-application association table.

Sorry, I don't know the exact funtions to call from KDE or gnome.

There are two Glib functions available. g_spawn_command_line_sync() and g_spawn_async(). Here is an example of the later.

Code:

/* **************************************************

 * sh_cmd() - executes a command in the background

 * returns TRUE is command was executed  (not the result of the command though..)

 * NO GLOBALS

*/

static gint sh_cmd (gchar * path, gchar * cmd, gchar * args)

{

  gchar    cmd_line[256];

  gchar  **argv;

  gint      argp;

  gint      rc = 0;



  if (cmd == NULL)

    return FALSE;



  if (cmd[0] == '\0')

    return FALSE;



  if (path != NULL)

    chdir (path);



  snprintf (cmd_line, sizeof (cmd_line), "%s %s", cmd, args);



  rc = g_shell_parse_argv (cmd_line, &argp, &argv, NULL);

  if (!rc)

  {

    g_strfreev (argv);

    return rc;

  }



  rc = g_spawn_async (path, argv, NULL,

                      G_SPAWN_STDOUT_TO_DEV_NULL | G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH,

                      NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);



  g_strfreev (argv);



  return rc;

}

Here is a snippet of the other

Code:

static gint get_new_ptable (P_Fah_monitor fm)

{ 

 gint  i_retcode = 0, i_exitcode = 0;

 gchar cv_filename[384];

 

#ifdef DLOGIC

  g_message (CONFIG_NAME":> Entered get_new_ptable(%d)...\n",fm->cb_id);

#endif

 

  if ( fm->i_stanford_points )  // TRUE if point table IS out of date

  {

    chdir ( fm->path_string );

    

    i_retcode = g_spawn_command_line_sync ( 

                    g_strdup_printf ("wget -N %s", STANDFORD_FAHPOINTS_URL),

                                        NULL, NULL, &i_exitcode, NULL);

    

    if( i_retcode )

    {

    ... good if retcode = 0

    }

Thanks Skona that was really helpfull,
Thank's alot.