Hi
I am building my applications's UI in Qt 4.4.3. I need to invoke some external shell script on click of a button click . Also i need to invoke "system-config-network" command from the shell script. Earlier i thought of using system("system-config-network") inside shell script but it didnt work out. Please suggest.

If you are talking about bash shell script then you do not need any function as such. If you just write the command it will be executed by shell.

If you are using Qt, that implies that you are writing in C. Most languages have something like a "system" call to let you use shell commands. I don't recall how C does this.

What exactly is going wrong when you invoke system("system-config-network")?

It's not clear at all to me what you try to do.

However, bear in mind that the C++ domain has nothing to do with the bash domain, and that you MUST abide the correct syntax for each one when you are using it.

The fact that you are calling bash from within a QT program is irrelevant, the bash script needs to abide the bash syntax. And in bash you never do something like "system()", because simply bash doesn't work that way. Bash is a command interpreter by itself, it doesn't need to do a system() call to launch a program, and it can't call a qt or c++ function either.

I assume that "system-config-network" is a command line tool. Isn't it? What does the script do that you can't code in C++ directly? Calling an additional shell instance might be an overkill.

In C/C++ 'system' is part of stdlib.h:

#include <stdlib.h>
int system(const char *command);

If you know the location and name of the launchable tool, then the code line is like:

system ("ls -l /bin/* > bintools.file");

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