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I'm sorry if this was covered before, but I can't find it anywhere on StackOverflow.
Basically I'm trying to run things that you usually run at a Windows command prompt:
msiexec /i file.msi /q
and other sort of commands from my C program. Is this possible?
Thanks.
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We usually use a compiler with a graphical user interface, to compile our C program. This can also be done by using cmd. The command prompt has a set of steps we need to perform in order to execute our program without using a GUI compiler.
/C Carries out the command specified by the string and then terminates. You can get all the cmd command line switches by typing cmd /? .
For instance, if you wanted to change the drive from C: to D:, you should type: d: … and then press Enter on your keyboard. To change the drive and the directory at the same time, use the cd command, followed by the /d switch.
In windows using the Win API ShellExecute will give you best control of your child process. However the other two methods mentioned by Dave18 and Pablo work as well.
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