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Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) [message #29176]

Thu, 07 February 2002 10:40

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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Paul van Delst wrote:

> Reimar Bauer wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have problems accessing data over a relative paths.
>>
>> $ ls ../../../../data/mo_output/modell_original_output/test.dat
>> gives ../../../../data/mo_output/modell_original_output/test.dat
>>
>>
print,file_test('../../../../data/mo_output/modell_original_ output/test.dat')
>> 0
>>
>> Is there a work around known?
>
> Things like
>
> print,file_test('~/data/mo_output/modell_original_output/tes t.dat')
>
> won't work either.
>
> bummer.
>
> paulv
>

I can understand that. ~ is a shell expansion (and only in some shells) so
if it doesn't use a sub-process and a shell which understands ~, ~ won't
get expanded.

But it would be useful (at least on UNIX, I'm not sure what Windows would
make of it).

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		Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 07 February 2002 10:40
		Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 07 February 2002 06:29
		Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) By: Nigel Wade on Thu, 07 February 2002 03:33
		Re: idl5.5 bug (relative path) By: thompson on Thu, 07 February 2002 15:28
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