Linux from VB instructions
I want to run a Linux shell script from VB. I want to execute a Linux script on a Linux server running Red Hat 8.0 from a VB program in Windows and obtain the result in VB program output. Is it possible? If it is, please explain the necessary steps.

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The answer is to use VB socket programming. This transcript from a TechTarget webcast may be just what you need.

I think you need to look at Linux socket programming. This page explains how to do this with C++ for a PRG system. It's not an apples-to-apples example, but it's conceptually the same.

The long of the short of it is that I think you need to open a socket to the Linux server and then execute the script, capture the data, parse the data and then let your application take action on it.

This was first published in December 2004