I have a method:

    int n = 100; // Number of elements
    char** strings = (char**)malloc(n * sizeof(char*));// Dynamic Array of Strings
    
    // -------------------------------------------------------
    if (strings == NULL) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Memory allocation failedn");
        exit(1);
    }
    
    // Allocate memory for each string and assign values
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        // Allocate memory for each string
        strings[i] = (char*)malloc((MAX_STRING_LENGTH + 1)
                                   * sizeof(char));
        if (strings[i] == NULL) {
            fprintf(stderr, "Memory allocation failedn");
            exit(1);
        }
    }
    
    // -------------------------------------------------------
    
    system("pwd");
    system("echo "----------------------"");
    
    FILE *fp;
    char path[1035];

    /* Open the command for reading. */
    fp = popen("test.sh", "r");
    if (fp == NULL) {
        printf("Failed to run commandn" );
        exit(1);
    }

    /* Read the output a line at a time - output it. */
    int i = 0;
    while (fgets(path, sizeof(path), fp) != NULL) {
        printf("%s", path);
        sprintf(strings[i], "%s", path);
        i++;
    }
    
    /* close */
    pclose(fp);
    
    return strings;

And all it does is return this:

START!
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺
P☺.Ä╔☺



















































































FINISH!

I understand the blanks just means the array is not full, that’s okay. But these lines: P☺.Ä╔☺ Do not make any sense. Any help?

So yeah, I tried to put that for loop into an array but gave me garbage instead. You can also help me by giving me an alternative. One that I know is system() in c but I do not know how to extract console information from it. All i am trying to do is make a program that will execute a bash script and return the results of the console to my c file.

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