C Question now ....

[Brett I. Holcomb]

arg[0] is the program name, the rest of arg are any arguments you have.

Ben Duncan wrote:

> Ok, now for my question of the day.
> After 18 years in UNIX and 8 in linux, started getting serious on
> developing my C skills. Most of revolves around Appgen stuff.
> 
> Anyway, I wrote a C program to tell me what kind of application an
> Appgen program is.  Program is called typeprog. To wit:
> 
> typeprog PDEF.OE07000
> 
> returns:
> 
> "Program PDEF.OE070000 is a Maint and uses OE-INVCE file."
> 
> Now, I would like to xpand that to use something like
> 
> "typeprog `ls PDEF.IV*`  "  or      " ls PDEF.IV | typeprog"
> 
> as well.
> 
> Now, I know argv[1] gives me the program name, but how do I go about
> xpanding that to use the latter style as well as the first and determine
> which
>   I have incoming and to walk the list given by the latter?
> 
> 
> I know I will probably have to put a while loop in it, but as for the
> rest, I am lost ...
> 

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