Problem sending command to terminal with QProcess

[dcasey627]

I am currently using Fedora 23 and QT 5.6. I am building a command for Hping3 and trying to send that command to the terminal and receive the results upon a button push. I can get the terminal to open but I can not get it to receive any commands. I am very new to QT so my knowledge is minimal. I learned programming with Visual Basic so I understand logic but this syntax is killing me.

Qt Code:

//Sending the command to terminal
    QProcess proc;
    proc.start("/usr/bin/gnome-terminal");
 
    proc.waitForStarted();
    proc.write("su");
    proc.write("ite");
    //proc.write(command);
    proc.waitForFinished();
 
    QByteArray output = proc.readAll();
    proc.close();
    ui->dgvResults->setText(output);

I am trying to display in a QTextBrowser and Commented out that one write command because I am getting an error

/home/itestudent/SeniorProject/frmmain.cpp:112: error: no matching function for call to 'QProcess::write(QString&)'
proc.write(command);
^

Command is declared at the top of the button push event
QString command = "hping3 -S ";

Any help would be great

[mrjj]

hi and welcome
the write seems to want a const char * so try with
p.write(command .toStdString().c_str());

( you give it QString& and it dont want a QString)

[SGaist]

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Since you only want the result, are you sure you need the gnome-terminal ? Or is to enter su's password ?

Use QByteArray for command in place of QString.

[dcasey627]

@SGaist I was trying to get into the su because sudo was not working. Now i figured out how to fix sudo so I am trying to send echo ite | sudo -S hping3 -S -c 5 <portNumber> <IPAdress> to the bash. My code waits like it is processing the command but I can not get it to update the text box(dgvResults). If i change the text box(dgvResults) to a simple string it will output that though. The code that I have so far is

QProcess proc;
proc.start("/bin/bash");

    proc.waitForStarted();
    proc.execute(command);
    proc.waitForFinished();

    QByteArray output = proc.readAll();
    proc.close();
    ui->dgvResults->setText(output);

[dcasey627]

I just want to thank you for the help. I just found another thread that had exactly what I needed. I swear I tried this before and it didn't work but somehow it does now

QProcess proc;
proc.start("/bin/bash", QStringList() << "-c" << command);

    proc.waitForFinished();

    QByteArray output = proc.readAll();
    proc.close();
    ui->dgvResults->setText(output);

Again thank you for the responses they were very helpful

[SGaist]

Glad you found out and thanks for sharing !

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