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Re: Spawn [message #61789 is a reply to message #8682]

Thu, 31 July 2008 05:38

mankoff
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Registered: March 2004

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On Jul 31, 7:44 am, Joost Aan de Brugh <joost...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

You can use the internal 'cd' command in IDL:

IDL> spawn, 'foo'
IDL> cd, '..'
IDL> spawn, 'foo' ; different foo, in parent directory.

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