Get command output in pipe, C for Linux

Question

I need to run the Linux CLI command and get its stdout output from C.

I can use pipe () to create a pipe, then fork / exec, redirect the descriptor of the child stdout to the pipe before calling exec (), and read from the pipe in the parent. In addition, I will need to wait for the baby.

Is there a simple call for fork + redirect + exec + wait, for example, system () makes fork + exec + wait, only system () does not redirect.

There's popen (), which does fork + redirect + exec, but does not wait, so I cannot get the exit status.

Answer 1

It is he?

NAME
       popen, pclose - process I / O

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdio.h>  

       FILE *popen(const char *command, const char *type);

       int pclose(FILE *stream);

DESCRIPTION
       The  popen()  function opens a process by creating a pipe, forking, 
and invoking the shell.  Since a pipe is by definition unidirectional, the 
type argument may specify only reading or writing, not both; the resulting 
stream is correspondingly read-only or write-only.

       The command argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string 
containing a shell command line.  This command is passed to /bin/sh 
using the -c flag; interpretation, if any, is performed by the shell.  
The type argument is a pointer to a null-terminated string which must be 
either ‘r’ for reading or ‘w’ for writing.

       The  return  value  from popen() is a normal standard I/O stream in 
all respects save that it must be closed with pclose() rather than fclose().  
Writing to such a stream writes to the standard input of the command; the 
command’s standard output is the same as that of the process that called 
popen(), unless this is altered by the command itself.  Conversely, reading 
from a ‘‘popened’’ stream reads the command’s standard output, and the 
command’s standard input is the same as that of the process that called 
popen().

       Note that output popen() streams are fully buffered by default.

       The pclose() function waits for the associated process to terminate 
and returns the exit status of the command as returned by wait4().

Answer 2

GLib - g_spawn_sync(): http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Spawning-Processes.html#g-spawn-sync

, :

const char *argv[] = { "your_command", NULL };
char *output = NULL; // will contain command output
GError *error = NULL;
int exit_status = 0;
if (!g_spawn_sync(NULL, argv, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, 
                  &output, NULL, &exit_status, &error))
{
  // handle error here
}

Answer 3

popen() pclose().

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pclose() , . , ...

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Answer 4

Here is what I use:

   /* simply invoke a app, pipe output*/
    pipe = popen(buf, "r" );
    if (pipe == NULL ) {
        printf("invoking %s failed: %s\n", buf, strerror(errno));
        return 1;
    }

    waitfor(10);

    while(!feof(pipe) ) {
        if( fgets( buf, 128, pipe ) != NULL ) {
            printf("%s\n", buf );
        }
    }

    /* Close pipe */
    rc = pclose(pipe);