[gradsusr] get output from shell command

[Lee Byerle]

Hi Bernd,
How about use of substitutions to get "date" into grads script  
starting from a template grads script:

For example:

set yrg = ` date  +%y `
set mng = ` date  +%m `
set dyg = ` date  +%d `


sed "s/DATEVAL/20${yrg}${mng}${dyg}/g" template_script.gs >   
newscript.gs

Lee


On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Becker, Bernd wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> how do I get the output from shell command "date"
> into the grads shell?
>
> '!date'
> res  = result
> say rc    res
> res=sublin(rc,2)
> say rc    res
> say subwrd(res   ,2)
>
> doesn't do it.
>
> Te following does, but with caveats:
> I got this far:
>
> '!date -d 'fxdate' +%b > ./erp2'
> record2=read('./erp2')
> mon=sublin(record2,2)
>
> but it is unsave if multiple processes run in parallel and
> overwrite erp2. Not good enough.
>
> many thanks!
>
> Bernd.
>
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