C++: Redirect command-line output

I've always wondered how to capture output from a command line program in windows, and the record it into a file.

while you can always just the greater-than-sign to output text into a file at the windows command prompt, sometimes it just isn't good enough.
"echo abc>hi.txt"

I ran into this once with mysqldump.exe.

Well I finally found the code that works. In this example I call 'dir'.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char psBuffer[128];
FILE *iopipe;

    if( (iopipe = _popen( "dir", "rt" )) == NULL )
        exit( 1 );

    while( !feof( iopipe ) )
    {
        if( fgets( psBuffer, 128, iopipe ) != NULL )
            printf( psBuffer );
    }

    printf( "\nProcess returned %d\n", _pclose( iopipe ) );

    return 0;
}

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