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adding quotation marks in a string - nesting strings

lperktold

Hello,

 I would like to run a shell command and wait for it to finish before SKILL continues.

 Assume I want to delete a directory hirachically, (I didn't find a hirachically delete command in SKILL) by running

 ccmd = sprintf(strx "rm -r %s" run_directory)
 csh(ccmd)

Thid works fine, but SKILL is not waiting for the csh command to finish. So I tried to use the inter process communication capability of SKILL:

ccmd = sprintf(strx "rm -r %s" run_directory)
cid = ipcBeginProcess( strcat("csh(\"" ccmd "\")" ) )
ipcWait(cid)

This code does not give me any errors or warnings but does also not delte the directory. I guess the basic problem comes with nesting of  strings when running ipcBeginProcess(). The csh() command as well as the ipcBeginProcess() command expect a string as an argument. I tried to nest those two strings by using the quotation mark escape sequence. SKILL then produces a string like:

> strcat("csh(\"" ccmd "\")" )
"csh(\"rm -r /simulation/320MHz_1.2V_27deg\")"

It seems like the csh() command is not capable of interpreting its given string correctly? But this is just a guess.

Would appreciate any comments.

Enjoy Lunch,
Lukas

  • Not sure why csh("command") is not waiting (it does for me).

    With ipcBeginProcess, you want to do ipcBeginProcess("rm -rf dir" ...) and not a command like "csh(rm -rf ...)" because that's not a valid UNIX command.

    Regards,

    Andrew

  •  Hello Andrew,

     I had a mistake in my ocean script. I tried to create a log file with outfile() right after I exectuted the csh("rm ...") command. I expected the outfile() command to create the missing directories which it does not. I interpreted this as SKILL not waiting for my csh() command to finish. - Sorry for that.

    So you were completely right Andrew - SKILL is waiting for the csh() command to exit and I don't need any icp command. Everything works now as expected.

    Thanks for your help. And for the future I will call ipcBeginProcess() directly with a shell command instead of a SKILL command :)

     

    Thaks again,

    Lukas

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