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Re: Spawn [message #61791 is a reply to message #8682]

Thu, 31 July 2008 05:33

Bob[3]
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On Jul 31, 7:44 am, Joost Aan de Brugh <joost...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering if you can navigate efficiently through directories
> with Spawn (Calling shell commands)
>
> For example:
> IDL> Spawn,"pwd"
> <Some directory>
> IDL> Spawn,"cd .."
> IDL> Spawn,"pwd"
> <Still same directory, because after the cd .., something is reset>

I believe the problem is because each time SPAWN is executed a new
shell is opened, so that you will be in IDL's current working
directory by default.

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		Re: Spawn By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 31 July 2008 10:21
		Re: Spawn By: mankoff on Thu, 31 July 2008 05:38
		Re: Spawn By: Joost Aan de Brugh on Thu, 31 July 2008 05:37
		Re: Spawn By: Bob[3] on Thu, 31 July 2008 05:33
		Re: Spawn By: Allan Whiteford on Thu, 31 July 2008 04:56

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