Is there similar function in c++ like subprocess.Popen() in python?

Question

I am wondering if there is similar function in c++ like subprocess.Popen() in python that would give me results given the execution list as the function's parameter.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65886035/is-there-similar-function-in-c-like-subprocess-popen-in-python

Answer 1

• If you have POSIX available, popen() is a possibility: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/popen.3.html
• More C++-ish is Boost::process, https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/doc/html/process.html

Both of those will take a small amount of wrangling to get from whatever list-of-arguments you have to something they can use (popen() expects a command to pass to the shell, like Popen() when args is a string).