Re: Standard input and ferret

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michel,

Another possible way to achieve the same functionality would be with Unix
named pipes. A search in the email archives reveals this discussion of the
technique:
http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/Mail_Archives/fu_97/msg00033.html

    - steve

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"Michel Beland (professionnel de recherche)" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> > I'm using v5.00 for producing movies, which works fine. In my script
> > there are two major differences to your commands:
> >
> > 1. I am using csh
> > 2. I've indented the FERRET commands by two blanks (that might be the
> > problem).
> >
> > Here's my script:
> >
> > foreach snapfile (*.cdf )
> > ferret >& /dev/null <<EOF
> >  use "$snapfile"
> >  go "$movie1"
> >  frame/file="gif/movie1.gif"
> >  cancel movie
> >  exit
> > EOF1
> > end
>
> I tried indenting the ferret commands and running the test script with
> csh (after necessary modifications) and the same problem happens.  Are
> you running on a SGI machine ?  Maybe the problem appears only on SGI...
>
> --
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