[Tiny-cobol-users] Re: CALL 'SYSTEM' (bash)

[Burke C. <bu...@bs...>]

Burke Cabaniss asks:

In a RedHat Linux environment I need to CALL bash and pass the commands it will 
execute; Linux programs and other scripts. With my current COBOL, this is CALL 
'SYSTEM' USING [ dataname | literal ] . I would guess this might be done by a 
"canned" C executable, but am not a C programmer. I am a COBOL programmer in 
many environments for 40 years. `bash` capabilities greatly expand what I could 
do in previous environments.

My COBOL has other useful CALL "canned" modules, such as one to return (pass) 
the string value of a bash environment variable, and the number and length of 
the USING parameters passed to a called COBOL program. Note that bash itself 
returns only an integer, if I understand.

I do not find any of this treated in TC or other COBOL documentation. Please 
advise me about it.