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Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment [message #91030 is a reply to message #91029]

Wed, 27 May 2015 00:55

Helder Marchetto
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Registered: November 2011

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On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 9:34:09 AM UTC+2, Kai Heckel wrote:
> Hey there!
> For reasons of processing time I'd like to replace a 'FILE_SEARCH' command with a faster 'find' LINUX command.
>
> Here is what I have so far...
>
> mydir = 'F:\startdir\anotherdir\maindir\data'
> cd, mydir
> spawn, 'pwd'
> spawn, 'find' -type f -name "*132.txt"
>
>
> The result should be every text file ending with "132.txt".
> Where am I going wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
> Kai

Hi,
I have no Linux to test this, but the spawn command expects a string as argument. Therefore I would do something like:

spawn, 'find -type f -name "*132.txt"'

Not tested!

Cheers,
Helder

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[Message index]

		Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 27 May 2015 00:34
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 27 May 2015 00:55
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 27 May 2015 01:19
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Helder Marchetto on Wed, 27 May 2015 01:27
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Kai Heckel on Wed, 27 May 2015 02:04
		Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment By: Lajos Foldy on Wed, 27 May 2015 03:48

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