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Re: findfile [message #15600 is a reply to message #9440]

Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00

Thomas A. McGlynn
Messages: 23
Registered: March 1996

Junior Member

This comes up periodically as one of IDL's quirks (to use a
kind word). IDL seems to just use the Unix 'ls' command
in findfile. You'll probably find that 'ls /tmp/*.*' would
also fail. Unix expands the argument list before executing
the command and the argument list overflows some limit.

The last time this came up a few months ago
a couple of readers indicated that they had written replacements
for findfile to get around this. You might check dejanews.

Regards,
Tom McGlynn

"R.Bauer" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got in trouble by findfile on a unix sytem
>
> while Windows IDL returns by findfile('C:\*.*') all files
> unix (aix) IDL did not give a result if more than 3500 files in a
> directory.
> findfile('/tmp/*.*') is ''
>
> If I use findfile('/tmp') I got all files.
>
> Unfortunately I have momentanly on the unix only idl5.1
>
> What is idl5.2 doing ?
>
> R.Bauer

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		FINDFILE By: J.D. Smith on Mon, 07 July 1997 00:00
		Re: findfile By: thompson on Sun, 30 May 1999 00:00
		Re: findfile By: David Foster on Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
		Re: findfile By: gurman on Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
		Re: findfile By: davidf on Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
		Re: findfile By: Thomas A. McGlynn on Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
		Re: findfile By: Martin Schultz on Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
		Re: findfile By: R.Bauer on Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00
		Re: findfile By: luthi on Fri, 28 May 1999 00:00

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