[wellylug] Programming Question

Glen Ogilvie nelg at wizards.linuxsolutions.co.nz
Thu Nov 27 08:21:03 NZDT 2003


What language do you want to use? 

in perl and php, backticks  (`)  can be used to run system commands.

Often programming lanagues have a function called system or exec that is 
used for running other programs from your program.

Cheers
Glen Ogilvie


On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Jethro Carr wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I need to make a program which can run another program on top of it,
> so I can run another program, like cp to copy a file, and then continue
> on with the program.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how I can do this?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> 
> 



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