Re: [ferret_users] ferret -script dir/script.jnl

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ryo,
Yes, this does seem to be somewhat of a bug in reading the arguments on 
the Ferret startup line, and sending them on to Ferret. Using the 
absolute path name rather than relative path name, does seem to work

  $ ferret -script /home/machine/ansley/tmp/hello.jnl  [arguments]

Another workaround is to create a short script in the local directory,  
run_script.jnl which just runs the script you want.

 ! run_script.jnl
 ! To run a specified script, specified with relative or absolute path
 ! Argument 1 is the script name

 GO "$1"
 exit

Then you can run Ferret in script mode, and pass the name of the script 
you want to run as follows:

 $ ferret -script run_script.jnl tmp/hello.jnl  [arguments]

For some reason the command-line reading does not have a problem with 
specifying tmp/hello as an argument to the script run_script.jnl.

Ansley


Ryo Furue wrote:
> Hi Ferreters,
>
> I'm wondering if this is a bug in Ferret.  Basically,
> I've been trying to use Ferret like this
>
>      ferret -script dir/script.jnl
>
> unsuccessfully, so far.  Here's a transcription of a session
> to illustrate the problem (where the "$"s are the shell prompts):
>
>   $ echo say hello > hello.jnl
>   $ /usr/local/ferret-6.0/bin/ferret_v600 -script hello.jnl
>   hello
>   $ mkdir tmp
>   $ echo say hello > tmp/hello.jnl
>   $ /usr/local/ferret-6.0/bin/ferret_v600 -script tmp/hello.jnl
>    **TMAP ERR: non-existent or not on line
>                /tmp
>   GO tmp/hello.jnl
>   Command file, command group, or REPEAT execution aborted
>   STOP -script mode, ERROR RUNNING SCRIPT statement executed
>   $
>
> I've also tried 
>
>    . . . -script \'tmp/hello.jnl\'
>
> and
>
>    . . . -script \"tmp/hello.jnl\"
>
> but neither works.
>
> I'm using Ferret 6.0 on a Debian GNU/Linux machine.
>
> Regards,
> Ryo
>   

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