<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:51 PM, The Don Lachlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://ale-at-ale.org">ale-at-ale.org</a>@<a href="http://unpopularminds.org">unpopularminds.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 08:48:59PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:45 PM, The Don Lachlan <<a href="http://ale-at-ale.org" target="_blank">ale-at-ale.org</a>@<br>
> <a href="http://unpopularminds.org" target="_blank">unpopularminds.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 05:57:42PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> > > that expects a {binary name} < {input data file}. {input data file} is<br>
> > > variably named and often 20+MB. Changing {binary name} to work better is<br>
> > > political (think Fortran 77 base code - someone in charge got their PhD<br>
> > with<br>
> > > that program).<br>
> > > so things must work as they are with my little tweaks around the edges.<br>
> > > until I blow away the decades old mess and start over in C.<br>
> ><br>
> > That doesn't make any sense.<br>
> ><br>
> > If the Fortran code expects the data as a stream (that's what the redirect<br>
> > does), then why are you trying to get the file name in a shell script? What<br>
> > is your objective with this?<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> For logging the combination of which fortran binary with which input file<br>
> I'm simulating parts of a process with a shell script. The fortran code runs<br>
> for many hours.<br>
<br>
</div>Ok, so you want to modify the Fortran code to log the input file. Right?<br></blockquote><div><br>Absolutely not. No fortran modifications are in order.<br><br>The fortran code is sometimes called directly and sometimes called with a shell script wrapper. This little bit I was hacking on needed to be able to handle either form. In short, I've added a wrapper to a wrapper. <br>
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<br>
If so, you could specify the input file twice and then have Fortan pull the<br>
first line of input as the name of the input file.<br>
<br>
$ script file.data < file.data<br>
<br>
but anything after that redirect is handled separately by the shell and not<br>
easily reachable by the Fortran code.<br>
<br>
<br>
Regarding cat and file redirection, you're confusing things.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I have a simple test script my_script<br>
><br>
> #!/bin/bash<br>
> # this is a crap script<br>
> myout="$2"'.crap'<br>
> directions=$(cat $2)<br>
> echo "$myout"<br>
> echo "$directions"<br>
> exit<br>
><br>
> It is launched by:<br>
> ./my_script < test1.dat<br>
<br>
</div>That's what you originally wrote. I said use<br>
<br>
directions=`<${1}`<br>
<br>
Which will work if you do "script file.data < file.data".<br></blockquote><div><br>But what _I_ wanted was the value of $2 followed by .crap. Yes. The useless cat to populate directions is best written as a redirect.<br>
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<br>
But you sent a whole bunch of errors here because you were trying to do<br>
something different, mostly stuff I don't understand.<br></blockquote><div><br>I sent my testing where I was clearing the cobwebs by creating a test bed. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
> FYI:<br>
> shell variable redirect<br>
><br>
> fred='foo bar'<br>
> mary=`<${fred}`<br>
> -bash: ${fred}: ambiguous redirect<br>
><br>
> mary=`cat ${fred}`<br>
> cat: foo: No such file or directory<br>
> cat: bar: No such file or directory<br>
<br>
</div>Where did that come from? You cat files. If foo and bar don't exist, you<br>
can't cat them. If you're trying to pull from multiple files, then the<br>
redirection won't work any more than "myscript < foo bar" would work.<br></blockquote><div><br>Again. I was testing scenarios to get the logic in my mind. I don't "program" but about once or twice a year. <br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> get contents of variable<br>
> mary=`echo ${fred}`<br>
> echo $mary<br>
> foo bar<br>
><br>
> make a file<br>
> echo "foo bar" >> fred<br>
> mary=$(<$fred)<br>
> -bash: $fred: ambiguous redirect<br>
<br>
</div>Isn't $fred still holding "foo bar"? You were looking for "fred".<br></blockquote><div><br>yes. $fred is still a container for a string and not a string that is an actual file name. I was trying to push the contents of fred into mary when I finally remembered that redirects have to be associated with files and that I had scrambled the two connotations in my mind.<br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> read file<br>
> cat fred<br>
> foo bar<br>
><br>
> redirect file contents to shell variable<br>
> mary=`<$fred`<br>
> -bash: $fred: ambiguous redirect<br>
<br>
</div>See above.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> create a reference (as shell var) to file to have redirect "go through"<br>
> john='fred'<br>
> mary=`<${john}`<br>
> echo $mary<br>
> foo bar<br>
><br>
><br>
> or just 'cat' the damn thing and irritate R. Schwartz again :-)<br>
> suzy=$(cat ${john})<br>
> echo $suzy<br>
> foo bar<br>
<br>
</div>WTF, dude? You have two equivalent code blocks:<br>
<div class="im"><br>
john='fred'<br>
mary=`<${john}`<br>
echo $mary<br>
foo bar<br>
<br>
</div>versus<br>
<br>
john='fred'<br>
<div class="im"> suzy=$(cat ${john})<br>
echo $suzy<br>
foo bar<br>
<br>
</div>That is *exactly* what you're doing in your test script. The first is safer<br>
and requires no extra work.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes they are the same. Again testing to see if there are any discernible differences. I do know that `` notation is only useful for a single functional call while $() can be nested. The later is the preferred method as the former is not as capable. <br>
<br>Many thanks for the pointers and reminders. Once the fog began lifting, I was able to do the last bit of bug bashing <snigger> and finish the testing of the wrapper. The real test begins shortly as the fortran warms up.<br>
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-L<br>
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consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as
they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the
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