Re: Re: Re: Run, RunThrough on OSX?
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- Subject: [mg53353] Re: [mg53350] Re: [mg53340] Re: Run, RunThrough on OSX?
- From: Christopher Purcell <christopherpurcell at mac.com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 02:39:20 -0500 (EST)
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Because (I presume) the original inquiry from m. r. schaferkotter just
used "date" as an example.
The question being raised is how, on Mac OS X, do you interact with
external programs
and operating system commands from within Mathematica
without having to do MathLink programming.
Christopher Purcell
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On Jan 7, 2005, at 2:18 AM, DrBob wrote:
> Why not this?
>
> Date[]
> {2005,1,6,23,59,42.7903763}
>
> Bobby
>
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:00:41 -0500 (EST), Christopher Purcell
> <chris.purcell at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Dr Christopher Purcell
>> Sensors & Actuators Group
>> DRDC-Atlantic, 9 Grove St., PO Box 1012,
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- References:
- Run, RunThrough on OSX?
- From: "m. r. schaferkotter" <schaferk@bellsouth.net>
- Re: Run, RunThrough on OSX?
- From: Christopher Purcell <chris.purcell@drdc-rddc.gc.ca>
- Re: Re: Run, RunThrough on OSX?
- From: DrBob <drbob@bigfoot.com>
- Run, RunThrough on OSX?