Opening .txt file in execl()

Question

How can I open a .txt file using execl() function? Is there any other function in c to open a file in gedit in Ubuntu.

Regards

Answer 1

Is there any other function in c to open a file in gedit

Th easiest would be

system("gedit file.txt");

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As a side-note you might want to look into xdg-open.

Answer 2

You can try this also

execlp("/usr/bin/gedit","gedit","text.txt",NULL);

general syntax of execl() and execlp()

int execl(const char *path, const char *arg, ...);
int execlp(const char *file, const char *arg, ...);

give full path of text.txt