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How to programmatically launch console/terminal and change its current directory to a certain path?
Language: C++/Qt, but I’m sure here the language doesn’t matter.
On systems that support the C library
system()call, you could just directly launch a command shell. What command depends on OS:For Windows, you want something like:
(escape backslashes as necessary)
For Unix variants, it could be an X11 terminal program with options to specify command to run: