11-14-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by
legato22
Thanks! Finally got the right search term. After a little more searching, fyi for posterity, i set the variables with:
DIR=`dirname $1`
INPUT=`basename $1`
I was having problems before too because I didn't realize that there could be no spaces when setting variables!
Works now, thanks again.
EDIT: Not working... sort of pissing me off. I did this the first time, and it returned the dirname and basename of the file the script was running on with $1, but now it won't anymore. dirname is empty and it just returns "usage:dirname path"
EDIT: And somehow it randomly works again.
As a wild guess, I'd say that the times it didn't work, you invoked your shell script with no operands.
In other words,
yourscript filename should work, but
yourscript will fail with errors similar to what you described above.
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xsil2graphics
XSIL2GRAPHICS(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation XSIL2GRAPHICS(1)
NAME
xsil2graphics - generate scripts to load xsil output data files
SYNOPSIS
xsil2graphics [options] <xsil_file>
DESCRIPTION
Utility program bundled with xmds, used to generate scripts that load simulation output data into either matlab (http://www.mathworks.com)
or scilab (http://www.scilab.org), which are then used to manipulate the results further if necessary and then to present the results
graphically.
Matlab
To generate a matlab m-file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:
bash$ xsil2graphics data_file.xsil
or
bash$ xsil2graphics --matlab data_file.xsil
Then at the matlab command prompt:
>> data_file
Scilab
To generate a scilab script file, from the xsil file data_file.xsil use the command:
bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab data_file.xsil
Then at the scilab command prompt:
--> exec('data_file.sci')
OPTIONS
-m, --matlab generate matlab m-file script to load data from the xsil data file (the default option)
-s, -scilab generate scilab script file to load data from the xsil data file
-o, --outfile <out_file> specify an alternative output script filename to the default which is the input xsil filename with the .xsil
extension changed to either .m for the matlab m-file or .sci for the scilab script file
EXAMPLES
bash$ xsil2graphics nlse.xsil
Generates the output nlse.m to load the data into matlab
bash$ xsil2graphics -m nlse.xsil
Also generates the output nlse.m but explicitly sets matlab to be the output format
bash$ xsil2graphics --scilab nlse.xsil
Generates the output nlse.sci to load the data into scilab
bash$ xsil2graphics --outfile nlse_new.m nlse.xsil
Generates the output nlse_new.m to load the data into matlab
AUTHORS
Originally written by Greg Collecutt
Maintained by Paul Cochrane with code contributed by Joe Hope
BUGS
No known bugs.
SEE ALSO
xmds(1), loadxsil(1)
http://www.xmds.org
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2004
Code contributed by Greg Collecutt, Joseph Hope and Paul Cochrane
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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