Redirect system() output?

[loketing]

Is there any way to redirect the output of the system() function? I know there is for redirecting stdout, but I can't make this work with system().

I tried to store the output of a system command in a file, like so:

FILE *File = NULL;
freopen_s(&File, "somefile.txt", "w", stdout);
system ("dir");
fclose(stdout);

...but this doesn't help. Is there any way to do this?

Thank you.

[loketing]

Ok, so I found one way that sort of helped. By just adding "<< somefile.txt" after the system call, I could capture the output. Like so:

system("dir >> somefile.txt");

However, this only partly solves my problem. A console window still opens, and executes the command before it is stored in a file. I need to disable this window from appearing as well, is there any way to do this?

[weaknessforcats]

Why not just call the same functions that dir does and write your output to a file?