#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string>
 
#include "shell_interp.h"
 
using namespace std;
 
Shell_Interp::Shell_Interp()
{
}
 
 
Shell_Interp::~Shell_Interp()
{
}
 
int Shell_Interp::runshellscript(char *filename, std::string& returnme)
{
   FILE *kshfd;
 
   char line[200];  // Returned values shouldn't be more than char
   char *files_to_open;  
 
   sprintf(files_to_open, "/usr/bin/ksh %s", filename);
 
   if( (kshfd = popen(files_to_open, "r")) == NULL )
   {
      return 1; // Damn file descriptor is invalid
   }   
 
   fgets( line, sizeof(line), kshfd); // Get line not in a loop cause we know the output
   std::string return_result(line);   // Convert to string to return
   returnme = return_result;          // Return this
 
   pclose(kshfd); // Close file descriptor         
   return 0;
}

#ifndef SHELL_INTERP_H
#define SHELL_INTERP_H
 
#include <string>
 
/**
@author Ben Maynard
*/
class Shell_Interp{
public:
    Shell_Interp();
    ~Shell_Interp();
    int runshellscript(char *filename, std::string& returnme);
};
 
#endif

     Shell_Interp my_shell;     
 
     char *filename;
     std::string resulting;
     filename = "/home/work/test.sh";
 
     std::string getthisdude;
 
     int a = my_shell.runshellscript(filename, getthisdude);
 
     cout << "Ran shell script to get: " << getthisdude.c_str() << " return was " << a << endl;
     my_shell.~ Shell_Interp();
 
      return 0;