On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM, achim <a...@jupiter.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> did someone tried -like me- to use r.mapcalc in a script inside an
> do-while-clause?
>
> I cannot pass changing variables $old, $new like:
> r.mapcalc 'river=if(river=$old,$new,null())'
> its because of the '', which are needed because if the if-statement.
If you use single quotes '$foo', then the variables are protected.
You need to use double quotes: "$foo":
r.mapcalc "river=if(river=$old,$new,null())"
Markus
PS: In GRASS 7, you need white space (at least) before the equal sign:
r.mapcalc "river = if(river=$old,$new,null())"
(see its manual)
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