Re: External programs, notebook interface
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- Subject: [mg24543] Re: External programs, notebook interface
- From: "Dale Horton" <daleh at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:04:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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The syntax error is because the output of date is not a valid expression. Instead, you want to put the output into a string. ReadList can do this ReadList["!date", Record] -Dale "Philip C Mendelsohn" <mend0070 at garnet.tc.umn.edu> wrote in message news:8l0po9$ds2 at smc.vnet.net... > Brief question: > > Using the text based interface, !ls, or !date or other various Unix > shell-escapes work just fine. In the notebook FrontEnd, however, > they do not. > > This is the output I get: > > Syntax::sntx: > Syntax error in or before "Thu Jul 13 10:03:59 CDT 2000". > ^ > (line 1 of "!date") > > If I run various configurations of Run["command"], it works but doesn't > echo the output (which is I as I would expect.) > > RunThrough["command", expr] doesn't work the way I want either. > > I know that I've done this before -- at one point I just lived in M > and scarcely even changed to a shell window. Now, I fear I forgot > how, or M is trying to pull a "Gaslight" on me. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, > Phil Mendelsohn > > -- > Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math >