[SAC-HELP] Executing Other Programs From SAC Macros (with RUN ... ENDRUN)

[andreas wessel]

On 11/8/06, Fiona Darbyshire <f.darbyshire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure whether "run sh" would work,but one can certainly run
> executables and shell scripts from within a SAC macro. I think what you're
> missing is the dollar sign in front of the commands.
>

Thanks, it works fine with the dollar signs. Maybe they should be added in
the manual.


On 11/8/06, Josh Calkins <jcalkins at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

In the end, I used a shell script that created a macro
> on the fly so I could change the shell commands based on bb variables
> that I would periodically write out to a text file.
>

That sounds familiar, but my approach doing that with the following syntax
for arg in "$@"; do
echo "$arg" > $SACTMPFILE
done

does not work as I would like it. Did you use something similar?

Thanks,
Andreas
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