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Re: Spawning Unix commands from IDL under bash [message #93309 is a reply to message #93307]

Fri, 10 June 2016 11:30

Craig Markwardt
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On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 2:20:05 PM UTC-4, wlandsman wrote:
> I've recently succumbed to peer pressure to switch my (Mac and Linux) shell from tcsh to bash.
>
> Everything is working fine except that I do not have access to the aliases defined in my .bash_profile (Mac) or .bashrc (linux) files when spawning from IDL. For example in my .bash_profile file I have
>
> alias ll="ls -l"
>
> I am able to use this alias at the system prompt but it is not recognized when spawning from the IDL prompt
>
> IDL> $ll (or IDL> spawn,'ll' )
> bash: ll: command not found
>
> Note that this is not a PATH problem and IDL> spawn,'ls' does work.

I think you are spawning an interactive non-login shell. See here...

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Star tup-Files.html

So it may depend whether your alias is defined in .bashrc or .bash_profile.

Craig

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		Spawning Unix commands from IDL under bash By: wlandsman on Fri, 10 June 2016 11:20
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