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Unix command line arguments to IDL program? [message #17173]

Tue, 14 September 1999 00:00

Craig Hamilton
Messages: 28
Registered: December 1996

Junior Member

Hi all:

How can I do the following:

Say I have a file xyz.dat with some interesting information in it,
and I have an IDL program, idlinfo.pro, that will read that file and
show me that interesting information. I want to type
the following at a Unix prompt and have the IDL program
startup and show me the info in file xyz.dat:

% showinfo xyz.dat

I realize (I think) that "showinfo" must be a script and so far I've
come up with the following script that will
start up my IDL program, idlinfo.pro :

#!/bin/csh
echo 'idlinfo' | idl

Now the problem is to get the filename xyz.dat to the
IDL program somehow. So far, all I've come up with
is writing a temp file into /tmp that idlinfo.pro is looking
for. There has got to be a better way.

Someone please enlighten me.

Thanks,
Craig

-Craig A. Hamilton,PhD cah@medeng.wfubmc.edu
-Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine
-Dept. of Med. Engr. / MRI Center
-Medical Center Blvd.
-Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1022
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