Shell question

[Pete]

Mi Michael,
This is running on my desktop (OS X)
Pete

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Michael Kann <mikekann at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Pete,
>
> Is your set-up  on the on-rev servers?
>
> Mike
>
> --- On Sun, 1/8/12, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
>
> From: Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com>
> Subject: Shell question
> To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Sunday, January 8, 2012, 7:52 PM
>
> I suspect this is more of a Unix question than LC but here goes.
>
> I'm issuing a shell command to run a program and redirect its stdin to a
> file, so something like
>
> put shell(myprog < /Users/Pete/myfile.txt) into myResult
>
> The Stdin file contains 3 or 4 lines that are valid input to myProg, one of
> which writes some output to another file.
>
> When I execute the shell command from LC or type the command into Terminal,
> the output file does not created, but I get no errors reported.  If I run
> myProg from Terminal and type the commands individually, the output file is
> created correctly.
>
> I've checked the path to the stdin file over and over and I'm sure it's
> correct.  The stdin file was created using TesxtEdit, read in to myLC
> script, had a couple of things replaced in it and written out again from LC
>
> I'm suspecting carriage return issues?
>
>
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> Pete
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