Shell argv

[Mike Bonner]

If you are in terminal, and in the folder where your executable is, and you
type

./yourexecutablename arg1 arg2
does it do what you expect? (note the preceding dot . which means to start
at the working directory)

If the file is set to executable by you, it should work.  If you type the
command without the preceding dot slash ./ and if its not in the path, it
won't work, so you DO need to be explicit as to where it is. (hence the ./
it defines exactly where to find the file so being in the set PATH isn't
necessary)

If it DOES work that way from the command line, then in your script you can
a) set the folder to the location of the file, and then b) do a
shell("./theExe arg1 arg2") and it should work.  Or for a) you can give a
full path specification to the location of the file.

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 12:54 PM, JB via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Thank you for the info.
>
> The dictionary for Shell states it needs to work
> from the Terminal to work correctly with Shell so
> I have been doing everything from the Terminal at
> this point.  I was trying to figure out how to write
> it properly in the Terminal so I could use similar
> code with the Shell.
>
> JB
>
>
> > On May 8, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Seems to me, if its the compiled version, you shouldn't need to use
> "open"
> > at all.
> >
> > a simple
> > get shell("path/to/executable argument1 argument2")
> > If I understand what I read about "open" enough, it expects a file, that
> > will be opened in another app, like in Marks example.  (whatever.c opens
> > xcode)
> >
> > If you want to experiment with open, you could try the following..
> >
> > open -a /path/to/your/app /path/to/a/dummy/file/to/open --args arg1 arg2
> >
> > I'm guessing that if you can format this right, it'll report the name of
> > the dummy file, and arg1 and arg2 as you expect.
> >
> > But since you just want to pass arguments to your compiled program, I am
> > pretty sure you just need to use shell() and call it directly with the
> > arguments as part of the call.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 12:05 PM, JB via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> That is a typo.
> >>
> >> In fact I tried every way and every
> >> place within the open script and if
> >> it is written different the code is not
> >> executed and I get and error.
> >>
> >> JB
> >>
> >>
> >>> On May 8, 2017, at 10:57 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 05/08/2017 10:36 AM, JB via use-livecode wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The file executes properly and the message is printed
> >>>> showing I did not enter any arguments even though I
> >>>> did try to and then it prints the file name and path like
> >>>> I told it to from argv[0].
> >>>>
> >>>> JB
> >>>
> >>> In your original post you said "-args". The correct syntax is "--args"
> >> (with two dashes rather than one), so if that's not a typo in your
> original
> >> email, try correcting that and see what happens.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Mark Wieder
> >>> ahsoftware at gmail.com
> >>>
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