[jarvis1]

Hi guys as the title says i need a way to execute multiple commands in the same shell with a timer. For example let's say i want to open a shell and execute a simple "ls" followed by a "mkdir hello" after 10 seconds from the first command.

Can you provide me some example? thanks :)

This is a very bad piece of code which doesn't do what i want of course.

Code

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctime>
#include <cerrno>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>

int main() {
   system("gnome-terminal -x sh -c 'ls; mkdir hello; exec bash'");
   return 0;
}

I could use a "usleep" but i don't think it'll work. And i know that "system()" is not very safe to use due to security reasons.

any idea on how should i actually write the code? 🤨

[g4143]

Yeah. Drop the C++ and use shell script.

[jarvis1]

sadly i really need to do this in c++ ... i know it would be better with shell script but i can't use it :P

[Annabelle Lee]

sadly i really need to do this in c++ ... i know it would be better with shell script but i can't use it :P

Why not?

[vaethael]

It running in linux? Sorry if it linux i can't help you. But in windows it can be coded it like this

Code

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>

using namespace std;

int main() {
system("pause");
system("timeout /10 /nobreak");
system("pause");
return 0;
}

[jarvis1]

Why not?

It's a school project man, i need to use C++, and yeah i'm on linux so the windows example is not so useful i'm afraid 😁

[๖ۣۜShadowOp]

Code

system("ls; sleep 10; mkdir hello");

[stackoverflowin]

Don't use system(..), its blocking and its frowned upon. Write a proper implemention by using the exec family of functions: https://linux.die.net/man/3/exec. You may want to daemonize the part where you're executing the commands too.