popen stores o/p of the specified command into a file. How can I get similar functionality but o/p into a variable (i.e. in a char*) ?
popen stores o/p of the specified command into a file. How can I get
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popen stores o/p of the specified command into a file. How can I get similar functionality but o/p into a variable (i.e. in a char*) ?
I could not find anything that returns o/p in a variable. It kind of makes sense as some commands’ o/p can be large so to make the behavior consistent, o/p is stored in the file. I actually ended up reading from file returned by
popen.Thanks for all the help.