Re: Shell commands in linux

[Nick Hill <nikhilwiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Cheedu <omicron@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Nick Hill wrote:
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> > clear is an external program. It is not a shell
> > command.
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> 	I don't know if it's not a shell command. But it
> did get executed
> when i ran it from the c program.

that's exactly why it ran. system() or for that matter
the whole pack of exec*(), run only executables. shell
commands cannot be run, as it has to be parsed by u're
shell. i think u can execute a shell script, which can
call the interpreter thru the #! tag and then run u're
shell commands.
Nikhil.
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