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Re: FINDFILE problems IDL 8 LINUX [message #74492 is a reply to message #74263]

Tue, 18 January 2011 23:20

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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Am 10.01.2011 16:59, schrieb David Fanning:
> Folks,
>
> Is anyone experiencing problems with FINDFILE in IDL 8
> on LINUX (Ubuntu)?
>
> Every time I try to use it I am getting an "Error managing
> child process" error, and it seems to be trying to open
> very strange files:
>
> IDL> a = findfile('addpath.pro')
> IDL> %FINDFILE: Error opening file.
> File: /home/david/temp/idl_tmp_9nunrQ
> IDL> %FINDFILE: Error managing child process
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
>

I don't get the traceback.

Hmm, isn't findfile deprecated?

findfile has some limitations if you have lots of files in a directory.

file_search() and file_which() may be the better choice

Cheers

Reimar

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