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Re: SPAWN error question [message #88747 is a reply to message #88714]

Thu, 12 June 2014 09:39

Craig Markwardt
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On Monday, June 9, 2014 3:34:15 PM UTC-4, Chip Helms wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> So I recently had SPAWN throw an error that I haven't had before, namely:
>
> IDL> spawn, 'wgrib2 -s '+filename+' | awk -F: ''{print $4 $5}''', inv
>
> % SPAWN: Error opening file. File: /usr/tmp/idl_tmp_ZPEOzs
> Too many open files
> % SPAWN: Error managing child process.

Here is my experience on IDL 7 and IDL 8, both Mac and Linux. For me, IDL doesn't create any temporary files when I run SPAWN. I would say you've got something very interesting going on in your system! Is it possible you have a setting in your .cshrc and/or .login that is saving shell output?

Craig

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		SPAWN error question By: Chip Helms on Mon, 09 June 2014 12:34
		Re: SPAWN error question By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 12 June 2014 09:39
		Re: SPAWN error question By: MarioIncandenza on Thu, 13 November 2014 10:34
		Re: SPAWN error question By: wlandsman on Thu, 13 November 2014 10:51
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