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Re: how to run a shell command in mathematica?

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• Subject: [mg46059] Re: [mg46038] how to run a shell command in mathematica?
• From: Yasvir Tesiram <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
• Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 02:29:30 -0500 (EST)
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First thing that springs to mind is;

Run["chmod a+x some-file"]

A couple of other things spring to mind;
1. Make sure that SetDirectory has been used prior to Run or specify the
full path to the file.
2. The command above will return the status code of the operation, 0 for
success. If you get anything else then something went awry.
3. You can Run["ls -al"] to check the permissions. But note, that you will
not get anything in the Notebook interface. You will need to redirect the
output of "ls -al", i.e. Run["ls -al > tmp.out"] or similar, then read it
into the Mathematica notebook however you please.

Cheers
Yas

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 sunyb at ustc.edu wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to change some file's mode such as "chmod a+x some-file" in
> mathematica, what should i do?
>
> thx!
>

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