execute script with C++

Question

I want to execute a script through a c++ program and get its output. Presently I am doing

system("./script.sh > out.txt");

But I need a command that get the output to a string, some thing like:

out = system("./script.sh");
printf(out);

I can't read the file out.txt after execute the script because I don't have permission to that. I deployed my c++ program at other framework (boinc) that doesn't give me this permission.

Does anybody have a hint? Thanks in advance! Felipe

Change the file permission with `chmod` in the system routine? — Eric, Apr 26 '13 at 11:32
Seems like you want the [`popen`](http://linux.die.net/man/3/popen) function? — Some programmer dude, Apr 26 '13 at 11:33
duplicate. Please look http://stackoverflow.com/questions/478898/how-to-execute-a-command-and-get-output-of-command-within-c/478960#478960 — fnc12, Sep 25 '15 at 08:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '13 at 13:21

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you can use popen() and then get the output of the command from the pipe opened by popen()

FILE  *fp;
fp=popen("./script.sh","r");

and to get your output. you can use fgets() or fread() to read from pipe like you read from a file

answered Apr 26 '13 at 13:21

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