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Re: Run, RunThrough on OSX?

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• Subject: [mg53340] Re: Run, RunThrough on OSX?
• From: Christopher Purcell <chris.purcell at drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
• Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:00:41 -0500 (EST)
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Run is returning a status code and not the date. If you pipe the output 
of data to a file
and read it, you will get your date. I recall an example in the 
newsgroup archives where
this is done in a one-liner but here is something that will get you 
started.

log=$Failed;
status=Run["date>junk.txt"];
If[status==0,
(log=ReadList["junk.txt",Record];
DeleteFile["junk.txt"];),Null];
log

Christopher Purcell
DRDC-Atlantic, 9 Grove St., PO Box 1012,
Dartmouth NS B2Y 3Z7 Canada
christopherpurcell at mac.com


On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:52 AM, m. r. schaferkotter wrote:

> greetings:
>
> Run and RunThrough on OSX don/t seem to work as indicated in the Help
> Browser or the Mathematica Book.
>
> Run["date"]
>
> -1
>
> instead of the date.
>
> on Solaris the functionality is there:
>
> In[1]:= Run["date"]
> Wed Jan  5 20:42:13 CST 2005
>
>
> also the shell escape doesn/t seem to work.
>
> can anyone explain why this should be the case?
>
> m. r.
>


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