Executing a notebook repeatedly from a script
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg25954] Executing a notebook repeatedly from a script
- From: dkeith at sarif.com
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 03:46:48 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I am looking for a way to automate the repeated execution of a notebook on new data. The notebook as I use it now reads all of the files in a directory (jpg images), processes them in varying ways to extract numerical values of different types, and then writes these values to a summary file for later use. The images associated with different data sets are stored in seperate directories which, at this time, must be processed by running the notebook after altering a string value which is the directory name containing the files. A fresh kernel is used each time to recover memory since the memory consumption is very high. I would like to automate this so that it performs this process on each subdirectory under some higher level directory. If the notebook was much less complicated, I would rewrite it as a single function to be applied to a directory name string and then just Map it onto a list of names, but it is way to complicated to make me want to approach it that way. Can anyone suggest a way of handling this? Thanks. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.