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Re: Copy file to all subfolders [message #90923 is a reply to message #90920]

Wed, 13 May 2015 00:04

Kai Heckel
Messages: 51
Registered: April 2015

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Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2015 16:57:05 UTC+2 schrieb David Fanning:
> Kai Heckel writes:
>
>> Yep I tried the FILE_COPY function but it didn't work...
>> e.g. I tried this line:
>>
>> FILE_COPY, DIALOG_PICKFILE(Title='Select file: '), file_dirs
>>
>> -> file_dirs is a variable that contains all subfolders
>
> Yeah, the documentation is probably leading you astray. I'd use it in a
> loop. Mats will show you how now that he is in the right frame of
> reference. ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.idlcoyote.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

So I tried this:

FOR i=0, N_ELEMENTS(file_dirs)-1 do
spawn, 'cp ', 'myfile', file_dirs[i]
ENDFOR

...somehow this won't work. This maybe an absolute newbie thing but I acutally am new to IDL and programming in general. ;)

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[Message index]

		Copy file to all subfolders By: Kai Heckel on Tue, 12 May 2015 06:56
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 12 May 2015 07:29
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: David Fanning on Tue, 12 May 2015 07:33
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 12 May 2015 07:48
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Kai Heckel on Tue, 12 May 2015 07:37
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: David Fanning on Tue, 12 May 2015 07:57
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 13 May 2015 00:04
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Mats Löfdahl on Wed, 13 May 2015 01:22
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 13 May 2015 02:19
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Mats Löfdahl on Wed, 13 May 2015 02:29
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 13 May 2015 03:30
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 13 May 2015 03:58
		Re: Copy file to all subfolders By: Kai Heckel on Tue, 12 May 2015 07:54

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