Internal Behaviour of system() Command

Hello,

I have been having "issues" (for lack of a better word)
with the behaviour of the system() command. There have
been a couple of ways in which I have tried to use it
and I have had problems. One of these is illustrated
below and can be executed from the command line:

ncl> system("date &")
sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
sh: -c: line 0: `date & | more'

Apparently the internals of system() try to pipe the
output of the input command to "more" ? If so, I would
think the default behaviour of system() should be to
execute the input command "as is", and leave the "| more"
up to the user or provide it as an option.

Thanks, Bruce

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Bruce Lunde
Bruce.Lunde_at_navy.mil
228-688-5843
Code NP1
Naval Oceanographic Office
Stennis Space Center, MS
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Received on Tue Sep 18 2007 - 15:34:32 MDT