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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: How do I feed output of DOS commands into a program?
Date: 2 Feb 2004 13:31:37 GMT
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Robbie Hatley <loneXwolfintj AT pacxbell DOT net DOT remove DOT xs> wrote:

> That's very interesting, but doesn't really constitute "not using
> temporary files".  

It does *to the extent possible*, i.e. if the platform you run this
on can get the job done without use of temp files, it will.  But note
that the fact that a command called "CD" (in upper case) even exists,
and prints the current directory if invoked without arguments, is
already completely non-portable.

You'll be a lot more portable using the POSIX standardized function
getcwd().

As to walking through trees: did you have a look at DJGPP's "ftw" for
"file tree walker" special function?

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.