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Re: SPAWN and strings [message #73373 is a reply to message #73372]

Fri, 05 November 2010 07:46

KRDean
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Registered: July 2006

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On Nov 5, 4:49 am, Ludo <lu...@orange.fr> wrote:
> I'm running IDL 7.1 on Windows XP SP2
> I tried this in the command line (cmd.exe) :
>
>> "C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" "C:\directory name with spaces\myFile.h5"
>
> It works.
>
> When I try the same command with SPAWN, it doesn't work. (I put spaces
> around ' and " for an easy reading, in my command there aren't any
> spaces.)
>
> SPAWN, ' "C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" "C:\directory name with
> spaces\myFile.h5" '
>
> It tries to lauch C:\Program, just like there weren't any quotes
> ( " ). I have the impression that SPAWN can't handle more than two "
> in a string. Why ?
>
> As expected, if my working directory is "C:\directory name with
> spaces", the following instruction works perfectly :
>
> SPAWN, ' "C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" myFile.h5'
>
> This one fails :
>
> SPAWN, ' "C:\Program Files\myDir\myProg.exe" "myFile.h5" '
>
> Did I miss something ? Some trick in strings management ?

Actually, it is an Environment Variable trick. I found this tip in
ITTVIS Tech tip. However, I forgot the Tip #.
Anyway, it works for me getting into the Windows XP UserProfile (C:
\Documents and Settings\kdean)

env = 'CMDUSERPROFILE=' + '"' + GETENV('USERPROFILE') + '\"'
SETENV, env
cmd = '%cmduserprofile%apps\PuTTY\Plink -ssh -v -batch ' +
runtime_machine + ' -l ' + username + ' ls -la'
SPAWN, CMD, listing, EXIT_STATUS = errOut, /STDERR, /LOG_OUTPUT

Kelly Dean
Milliken, CO

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		Re: SPAWN and strings By: Ludo on Fri, 05 November 2010 08:45
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: Ludo on Fri, 05 November 2010 08:37
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: Heinz Stege on Fri, 05 November 2010 07:53
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: KRDean on Fri, 05 November 2010 07:46
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: Ludo on Fri, 05 November 2010 07:45
		Re: SPAWN and strings By: David Fanning on Fri, 05 November 2010 07:22

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