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System(Command)
System: INTEGER(KIND=1) function.
Command: CHARACTER; scalar; INTENT(IN).
Intrinsic groups: badu77.
Description:
Passes the command Command to a shell (see system(3)).
Returns the value returned by
system(3), presumably 0 if the shell command succeeded.
Note that which shell is used to invoke the command is system-dependent
and environment-dependent.
Due to the side effects performed by this intrinsic, the function form is not recommended. However, the function form can be valid in cases where the actual side effects performed by the call are unimportant to the application.
For example, on a UNIX system, `SAME = SYSTEM('cmp a b')'
does not perform any side effects likely to be important to the
program, so the programmer would not care if the actual system
call (and invocation of cmp) was optimized away in a situation
where the return value could be determined otherwise, or was not
actually needed (`SAME' not actually referenced after the
sample assignment statement).
For information on other intrinsics with the same name: See System Intrinsic (subroutine).