Is there a c++ library that provides functionality to execute an external program and read its outpu
- by BD at Rivenhill
Basically, I'm looking for something that will allow me to replicate the following Perl code:
my $fh = new FileHandle;
$fh->open("foo |");
while (<$fh>) {
# Do something with this line of data.
}
This is in the context of Linux, so a library that is specific to Windows will not help. I know how to write a program that does fork/exec/dup2 and all that basic shell-type jazz, but there are some fiddly details involving terminals that I don't feel like messing around with (and I don't have a copy of "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" or a similar reference handy), so I'm hoping that someone has already solved this problem.
