Is it possible to call commands like 'cp' or 'mkdir' inside C++? What I want to do is write a small program that will update my gentoo server. I know I could write this as a simple shell script but I would really like to get practice using C++. I am thinking once the program is done I can compile it and set it up in cron to update my server every month or so... Any ideas or direction for me? Thanks all, Grey

system() should work
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Remember to
#include <cstdlib>
instead of
#include <stdlib.h>

But these kind of things are really better done with another language, like perl or /bin/sh .

Since you want to do it in C rather than going through the shell, you'll want to use appropriate system calls rather than calling system()

mkdir() in <sys/stat.h>

To copy a file, you can either use link() in <unistd.h> to add a link to the file or copy the file "by hand" by creating a new file and copying the data into it.

Actually the system("command"); has worked out perfect.

I have my programs cron'd and updating once a week.

I set it up so that it pipes all of the output to a log file for further review. Very nice and easy!

Thanks for the help, really helped out alot!

Grey