[Fwd: Re: Changing Directory Within NCL Script]

Lunde, Bruce N CIV NAVOCEANO, NP1 wrote:

> I had wanted to change the current working
> directory within my NCL script. I had
> tried doing system("cd NewDir"), which
> did not work.

While it is generally true in the Unix world that a child process
(sub-shell) cannot modify the environment of the parent process (shell),
there is a way to run commands in a script *in the context of the
current shell*. In csh, this is called "source". In Korn shell the
syntax is to prepend a dot (e.g., ". ./script"). No such mechanism
exists in NCL. This is an advanced topic and not something that is
likely to be incorporated into NCL any time soon, I think.

On the other hand, MATLAB and IDL have a CD function which does exactly
what you want to do (change the current working directory). I wonder how
difficult it would be to incorporate such a function into NCL. It would
be quite useful.

Andy

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Received on Fri Jul 03 2009 - 05:12:57 MDT