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Re: Perform 'find' command (LINUX) in IDL environment [message #91033 is a reply to message #91032]

Wed, 27 May 2015 02:04

Kai Heckel
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Registered: April 2015

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Am Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2015 10:27:56 UTC+2 schrieb Helder:
> On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 10:19:45 AM UTC+2, Kai Heckel wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2015 09:55:55 UTC+2 schrieb Helder:
>>> 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
>>
>> Perfect, this works, thanks for that.
>>
>> How can I store the search results in a variable in order to use them in IDL.
>>
>> Something like this:
>>
>> results = spawn, 'find -type f -name "*132.txt"'
>
> Look at the spawn documentation: http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/SPAWN.html
> The synthax is:
> SPAWN [, Command [, Result] [, ErrResult] ]
> and result is what you need.
> So that should rather look like:
> spawn, 'find -type f -name "*132.txt"', myOutput
> print, myOutput
>
> cheers,
> Helder

Somehow the variable 'myOutput' is empty... no files are found.
I thought I might be in the wrong directory, so I typed: spawn, 'pwd'
... but IDL didn't print anything. Shouldn't the 'mydir' appear after that command?

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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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