Idiot Question- How to execute a shell command

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From: ns111310
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:01

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OK, OK, I have a dumb question:

How do you execute a shell command from inside of a program, and then 
get the output??

-nate sammons
 ns111310@longs.lance.colostate.edu

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