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Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment [message #91031 is a reply to message #91030]

Wed, 27 May 2015 01:19

Kai Heckel
Messages: 51
Registered: April 2015

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Am Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2015 09:55:55 UTC+2 schrieb Helder:
> On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 9:34:09 AM UTC+2, Kai Heckel wrote:
>> Hey there!
>> For reasons of processing time I'd like to replace a 'FILE_SEARCH' command with a faster 'find' LINUX command.
>>
>> Here is what I have so far...
>>
>> mydir = 'F:\startdir\anotherdir\maindir\data'
>> cd, mydir
>> spawn, 'pwd'
>> spawn, 'find' -type f -name "*132.txt"
>>
>>
>> The result should be every text file ending with "132.txt".
>> Where am I going wrong here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kai
>
> Hi,
> I have no Linux to test this, but the spawn command expects a string as argument. Therefore I would do something like:
>
> spawn, 'find -type f -name "*132.txt"'
>
> Not tested!
>
> Cheers,
> Helder

Perfect, this works, thanks for that.

How can I store the search results in a variable in order to use them in IDL.

Something like this:

results = spawn, 'find -type f -name "*132.txt"'

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[Message index]

		Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 27 May 2015 00:34
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 27 May 2015 00:55
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 27 May 2015 01:19
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 27 May 2015 01:27
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 27 May 2015 02:04
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Lajos Foldy on Wed, 27 May 2015 03:48

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