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Re: Findfile finds no files [message #29975]

Wed, 03 April 2002 02:45

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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Pete Riley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just came across a weird problem I'm not sure if it's been talked about
> before. I'm using IDL 5.5 on linux RH 7.2. I ran some code which calls
> findfile() last week and everything worked out fine. Today, it returns no
> files, even with
>
> Print,findfile('*')
>
> Yet $ls shows all the files in the current directory.
>
> Has anyone come across this?
>
> Thanks in advance, Pete

Apart from the issue Dave mentions, the only time I have seen anything
similar to this if the system disk is full. findfile() spawns a ls process
to get the file list, holding it in a temporary file on disk. If there
isn't sufficient space on the disk to hold the list of files the results
from findfile() are somewhat random.

How full is your system disk?

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