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Thu, 31 July 2008 04:44

Joost Aan de Brugh
Messages: 16
Registered: July 2008

Junior Member

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 solved this problem by making an executable file which takes care of
the directories.
Spawn,condition?"OneFile":"OtherFile"
And the executable file OneFile and OtherFile do the same but in a
slightly different directory.

I actually have no problem with this, but I was wondering if there is
a nicer way to do this.

Kind regards,
Joost

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