Running programs from the command line in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg90755] Running programs from the command line in Mathematica
- From: Josh Burkart <jburkart at ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:56:58 -0400 (EDT)
Hello, Basically, I would like to run the following command from Mathematica: idl /users/burkart/idlpro/autoexportdata.bat If I type this command into a terminal (I'm running Mac OSX Leopard), it works perfectly well. However, if I try the same thing using Mathematica's Run[] command, it does not execute and I get the following result: In[9]:= Run["idl /users/burkart/idlpro/autoexportdata.bat"] Out[9]= 32512 The error code Run[] produces is the same every time and I don't know what it means (might be OS-specific). The command, when executed from the terminal, is designed to self-quit after finishing. Is there some way to do what I'm trying to do? Thanks in advance, Josh Burkart