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QUESTION POSED ON: 04 December 2004
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.


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