What's wrong with my func - popen fgets...

Using Linux/C - can't get the following to work...beginner please help

void Func_Get_Image()
{

int Current_Image_Num = 1;
char Var_Get_Image[MAX_DIR_LENGTH] = { 0x0 };
sprintf( Var_Get_Image, "find $HOME/Pictures -iregex '.*\.\(gif\|jpg\|jpeg\|bmp\|png\||tif\||tiff\||svg\)' | sed %d'q;d'", Current_Image_Num);
FILE *in=popen("Var_Get_Image","r");
char tmp[MAX_DIR_LENGTH]={0x0};
while(fgets(tmp,sizeof(tmp),in))
printf("%s",tmp);

pclose(in);
}

This compiles...but Var_Get_Image is being sent as the command rather than the contents of Var_Get_Image (find $HOME/Pictures -iregex '.*\.\(gif\|jpg\|jpeg\|bmp\|png\||tif\||tiff\||svg\)' | sed %d'q;d')

would be the right popen command.
But there is another problem with your code. You have to escape the backslashes in the format-string.
Something like that

Kurt

ok I just change to the code you suggested but still get the same error (sh: cannot find command Var_Get_Image)..

I've tried both
FILE *in=popen(Var_Get_Image,"r");
and
FILE *in=popen("Var_Get_Image","r");
with the same results...this seems very strange...your help is very much appreciated.

with

Works fine for me. But the find command seems not to be correct
Kurt