| Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable [message #45583] |
Tue, 20 September 2005 09:23 |
Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998
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Ricardo Bugalho wrote:
> Anyone knows of a way to find out the path of the executable of the
> current IDL session?
> I have an IDL program that launches other IDL sessions and I need to know
> the path to the "idl" executable.
You could take Antionio's !DIR suggestion, add a bit of PATH_SEP()+'bin'
and flavor with the recursive file_search() function and parse that. I
would think this would be the most robust solution.
-Rick
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| Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable [message #45593 is a reply to message #45583] |
Tue, 20 September 2005 02:40  |
Ricardo Bugalho
Messages: 22
Registered: March 2005
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:06:23 -0500, Michael Wallace wrote:
> If on *nix, you can spawn a call to the system's which command ("which
> idl") and it will tell you the path of the IDL executable. You might need
> to play with this command a little if the path is an alias.
Oh, I'm trying to make this portable between Unix and Windows! You may
call me insane now. :)
I'm going by Andrew's suggestions and parse the contents of !DLM_PATH.
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| Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable [message #45597 is a reply to message #45593] |
Mon, 19 September 2005 22:52 |
Antonio Santiago
Messages: 201
Registered: February 2004
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Ricardo Bugalho wrote:
> Hello group!
> Anyone knows of a way to find out the path of the executable of the
> current IDL session?
> I have an IDL program that launches other IDL sessions and I need to know
> the path to the "idl" executable.
>
> Thanks
What about !DIR (or IDL_PATH evnironment variable) ??
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| Re: Finding the path of the IDL executable [message #45610 is a reply to message #45607] |
Mon, 19 September 2005 09:06 |
Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003
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Ricardo Bugalho wrote:
> Hello group!
> Anyone knows of a way to find out the path of the executable of the
> current IDL session?
> I have an IDL program that launches other IDL sessions and I need to know
> the path to the "idl" executable.
If on *nix, you can spawn a call to the system's which command ("which
idl") and it will tell you the path of the IDL executable. You might
need to play with this command a little if the path is an alias.
-Mike
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