Okay so my question is this. Say I have a simple C++ code:
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(){ cout << "Hello World" << endl; return 0; }
Now say I have this program that I would like to run in my program, call it prog. Running this in the terminal could be done by:
./prog
Is there a way to just do this from my simple C++ program? For instance
#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(){ ./prog ?? cout << "Hello World" << endl; return 0; }
Any feedback would be very much obliged.
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Answer
You want the system()
library call; see system(3). For example:
#include <cstdlib> int main() { std::system("./prog"); return 0; }
The exact command string will be system-dependent, of course.