A Person wrote: > Good Day . . . > > I am using Gambas 2.8.2-1ubuntu1. > > I wrote a program that randomly displays a line from a text file. The > code worked in pure Gambas but then I tried to improve it! (Ho Ho Ho) > > I searched around and I came up with and modified an executable BASH > script (test.sh) that worked substantially faster than my code so I > tried to incorporate it into the source code. > > During my testing I continuously ran tests in a terminal and > everything worked perfectly with the script. I tried it in my code using > > ## EXEC ["~/test.sh"] to sOutPut or EXEC ["~/./test.sh"] to sOutPut > > and nothing worked. sOutPut was always "". > > The attached tar file contained a small program that contains an > example EXEC problem code. A modified test.sh script is included along > with a dummy data file, words.txt. > > Any ideas about the EXEC problem? > > Thanks > > Paul > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > I tried your code and got the same results as you did. Changing the To sOutPut to a WAIT revealed an error message that it couldn't find the script. I corrected the path to the script in the EXEC line and it worked.
Hope this helps Richard. -- Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? (How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?) Registered Linux User: #459086 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user