Hi,
Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?

eg. system("date");

I like to store the date output to a variable.  The only way I know of is to 
open and write the output to a file and then read in to a variable. Is there a 
simpler way?

Thanks in advance.

Geraldine

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