Re: Executing a notebook repeatedly from a script
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg25979] Re: Executing a notebook repeatedly from a script
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 02:09:35 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, this work not with notebooks, notebooks are for interactive usage ! You can write a notanotebook.m file and do all your commands with math < notanotebook.m > /dev/nul Regards Jens dkeith at sarif.com wrote: > > 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.