Hi Bruce,
It should not work. [As I understand it,] the commands passed through the
system function will be implemented in a child process,
and so it should have no effect on the NCL script (parent)
that called it (in real life though, children have
effects on parents :) ).
So I guess the only way is to orchestrate everything
from an external script (or better hardcode absolute
paths for your desired operations).
saji
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* Lunde, Bruce N CIV NAVOCEANO, NP1 <bruce.lunde_at_navy.mil> [2009-07-02 18:11:12 -0400]:
> Hello,
>
> I had wanted to change the current working
> directory within my NCL script. I had
> tried doing system("cd NewDir"), which
> did not work. Testing with
> system("cd NewDir; ls") confirmed that
> the new directory was changed to within
> the subshell of the system() command, but
> the current dir of the parent shell stayed
> the same.
>
> In the talk archives I had seen responses
> to the same question which also suggested
> using system("cd NewDir"). Does this
> really work for someone ?
>
> Thanks, Bruce
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