I have an app that's essentially an interactive shell, and i'd like to:

Now, i can simply invoke and pass control by using system(), got that advice from the helpful folks in the chatterbox (thanks again guys): 
system("./SHELL");
print "by the time you see this, you'll have exited the shell";

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but i need to enter specific commands INTO the shell before the user can enter anything themselves...this may take an OS-dependant trick, but thats ok because im only using this on the one specific OS (debian 3.1).

i figured it needs to be something along the lines of the following, but these dont quite work: 

#invokes SHELL, then waits until termination of console
#to call CMD...not what i need
system("./SHELL\nCMD\n");

#invokes the SHELL, enters command into SHELL,
#then terminates SHELL before user can do anything
system("./SHELL<<EOC\nCMD\nEOC\n");

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perhaps i need to somehow drop commands into the terminal's input buffer before i invoke the app? i wouldnt even know where to begin to do that though.

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In reply to Invoking, issuing commands to, and passing control to an interactive shell... by EvanK

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