USER (was Re: exists or similar command to work like grep on file system files)

[James Flanagan]

Bruce & Ken, 

Thank you very much for your help.  I have a better understanding of the command & I now have the code working just as i originally planned on it.  Thanks again.  

James Flanagan
Flantec.com

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On Feb 13, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote:

> On 2/13/2014 12:45 PM, James Flanagan wrote:
>> ARGGHH!  I am an idiot.  I did not know of the USER command until
>> yesterday, and all the while, i have a global variable USER in my code.
>> needless to say, once i changed the name of the global variable, the
>> command does not result in an error and actually works.
>> 
>> Ken, I apologize for wasting your time on that matter.
>> 
>> Now that I have the command working properly, is this possible, where i
>> could define the PATHNAME (or more specifically, an argument) to the
>> command?  If so, I am home free.
>> 
>> ::qv="/flantec/scripts/findphoto"<qx:
>> ::user kenbrody = (qv):
>> 
>> So Far i have not been able to get this to work.  Thank you all very
>> much
> [...]
> 
> filePro currently requires that the command be specified on the USER line, 
> and doesn't take any variables.
> 
> You could pass the variable to the program.  Using your example:
> 
>     user prog = /flantec/scripts/findphoto
>     prog = qx      ' Pass the filename to the script
>     result = prog  ' Get the result back
> 
> Then, the script would then read the name from stdin, rather than the 
> command line.
> 
>     while read name
>     do
>         # The "real work" goes here.
>     done
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
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