A simple example of using pipe in Linux.
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/*
* Run the 'ls' command and print the output to stdout.
*
* Compile with
* gcc -Wall pipe.c -o pipe
*
*
* Mithenks <mithenks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main() {
FILE *pipe;
char buffer[1024];
if ( (pipe = popen("ls","r") ) < 0 ) {
perror("popen(): ");
exit(-1);
}
fread(buffer,sizeof(buffer),1,pipe);
printf("Output:\n%s\n",buffer);
pclose(pipe);
return 0;
}
