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Re: Multiple Spawn Commands [message #49389 is a reply to message #49292]

Fri, 14 July 2006 11:27

Maarten Sneep
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Registered: February 2006

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In article <1152895388.545979.198960@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
"Ryan." <rchughes@brutus.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> Jo,
> Thank you for your response, that is going to make my life a lot easier
> but i can't seem to get it work properly in a UNIX environment. How do
> you write a foreach loop in a UNIX environment in one line? I have
> experimented a bit with it but it keeps complaining to me about
> misplace brackets, what is the proper syntax?

What is your shell:
spawn, "echo $SHELL"
should tell. Because of the syntax you use in your original post, I
think you're using a csh derivative. It has been a while, but I think
a foreach loop looks like:

spawn, "foreach i (item1 item2 item3); action $i; end"

An O'Reilly book on shells will help you here, but often it is easier,
and more portable, to perform the action in IDL.

If all fails:
for ii=0,n_elements(files)-1 do $
spawn, "file_dump.ps " + files[ii]

(yeah, I know, lots of overhead, not pretty, but at least it'll work.)

Maarten
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		Re: Multiple Spawn Commands By: Ryan. on Fri, 14 July 2006 09:43
		Re: Multiple Spawn Commands By: Jo Klein on Fri, 14 July 2006 09:16
		Re: Multiple Spawn Commands By: Jo Klein on Tue, 18 July 2006 04:04
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