[wellylug] Programming Question

[Jethro Carr]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 20:55, Chris Harris 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.
> > > In C you'd be using system() [don't use if the process
> > > you're about to call is setuid or setgid] or exec()
> > > 
> > > man system
> > > man exec
> > > 
> > > for details ;)
> > 
> > Thanks, I want to use c, or c++
> 
> /* docp.c */
> int main(){
>   system("cp docp.c docp.copy&");
>   return 0;
> }
Thanks, this command seems to work well.


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