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Re: catching command line arguments from the shell [message #26931 is a reply to message #26839]

Thu, 04 October 2001 09:40

Phillip David
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Registered: April 1999

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We do this with the following:

echo "testpro, x=5, y=1" | idl

This makes it like typing this line at the IDL command prompt. In this
case, though, you're really replacing your keyboard standard input with
a pipe as standard input. So if you want to be able to do further
processing from the command prompt, I believe you've lost that ability.
Widgets work fine, though.

Phillip

"KiWing To ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½" wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I wonder if it is possible to pass the command line arguments to
> the IDL pro directly from the shell? Say in the csh shell, when I
> type:
> idl testpro x=5 y=1 <return>
> the idl procedure testpro can get the arguments "x=5" and "y=1".
> Thanks.
> Eric To

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