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How can I execute multiple unix commands with one system call?

Sep 15th, 1999 21:51
Nathan Wallace, John Millaway, Richard Lynch, Teodor Cimpoesu

Try this:

    system("cd /etc ; ls -l");

or this:

    chdir("/etc");
    system("ls -l");

or this:

    system("cd /etc \n ls -l");

or these bash variations:

    system("ls -l /etc");

    system("cd /etc && ls -l");