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Re: [LUG] C++ Experts

 

I believe you can do this using the popen() function.

There's an example of how to do so here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5507024&postcount=12

Regards, Ross Bearman



On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Sam Grabham <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Tinkering with C++ again.
>
> How should i capture OS system values like "netstat" and "traceroute" info
> etc, and use them within C++.
>
> Should i be using a C++ header that would allow to extract data from the OS?
>
> I have been using a SYSTEM(netstat -anopt | grep :21 >> temp.txt) then
> reading the data in via a loop, I would like to be able to pipe data into a
> variable so i can extract in memory and speed things up. I would like to be
> able to use basic bash commands to extract values i want.
>
> Regards
>
> Sam
>
>
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