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Re: spawn not working [message #84315 is a reply to message #84314]

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:03

anand
Messages: 11
Registered: December 2008

Junior Member

you seemed to have hit the nail on the head. i had confused the IDL variable !PATH with the environment variable, getenv('path').
IDL> help, getenv('path')
returns a null string.

could you also tell me the right way to fix it?

Anand.

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:14:01 PM UTC+9, mschellens wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 14. Mai 2013 03:24:32 UTC+2 schrieb anand:
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>> I am using IDL 8.1 on ubuntu 12.10. Additionally, I use SolarSoft, which is a package containing several libraries relevant to solar physics. I have to initiate the SolarSoft in IDL by typing 'sswidl' at the command prompt and not the simple 'idl'.
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>> The problem I face is that while a simple "spawn, 'ls'" command works perfectly fine while running 'idl', in 'sswidl' the output I get is:
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>> bash: ls: command not found
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>> I run the 'sswidl' in C-shell. Whereas 'idl' can be run in both C-shell and bash; and spawn works fine in both the shells.
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>> It is not simply about the spawn command, many other programs that run spawn are also not working. Hence, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>> Anand.
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> Is the path environment variable set?
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> Check with:
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> PRINT,GETENV("PATH")
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> Regards,
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> Marc

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		Re: spawn not working By: m_schellens on Wed, 15 May 2013 02:15
		Re: spawn not working By: anand on Wed, 15 May 2013 02:03
		Re: spawn not working By: m_schellens on Wed, 15 May 2013 01:14
		Re: spawn not working By: anand on Thu, 22 August 2013 00:45

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