Manual page for SYSTEM(3)
system - issue a shell command
SYNOPSIS
system(string)
char *string;
DESCRIPTION
System
causes the
string
to be given to
sh.1
as input as if the string had been typed as a command
at a terminal.
The current process waits until the shell has
completed, then returns the exit status of the shell.
SEE ALSO
popen(3S),
execve(2),
wait(2)
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status 127 indicates the shell couldn't be executed.
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