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Revision as of 09:54, 2 April 2009
PURPOSE
execute an operating system command
SYNOPSIS
#include <dbl.h int dbrun(command) <input parameters> char *command; /* Address of a buffer containing an operating system command */ <output Parameters> none
RETURN VALUE
The dbrun() function returns 0 for success or < 0 if an error occurs. See the section on return code values for a detailed list of return codes.
DESCRIPTION
The dbrun() function executes an operating system command. Any valid operating system command can be specified.
EXAMPLE
The first example runs the UNIX "rm" command.
#include "dbl.h" int rc; /* Return code */ rc = dbrun("rm *.bak"); if (rc != SUCCESS){ printf("error no %dn", rc); exit(1); } The second example runs the OpenVMS "purge" command. <code lang="c"> #include "dbl.h" int rc; /* Return code */ rc = dbrun("purge/log"); if (rc != SUCCESS){ printf("error no %dn", rc); exit(1); }
