06-15-2012
Thanks, Chubler. That works perfectly. I'm new to shell scripting (started grad school a year ago and have been teaching myself shell scripting to do brain image analysis). About your notes:
1) I got this script working so that it took the inputs in the Terminal window (you'd have to type in "Parallel 1 2 3 4 5..." into Terminal), but it only worked with the first shift command, for some reason. The second one was so that I didn't have thousands of "Waiting to open window" notices, but you solved that problem.
2) Yeah, that "done" was from a for loop I have embedded earlier in the script.
3) That makes perfect sense.
One thing I don't understand about your changes, though, is why [ $windows -ge $maxwindows ] is in there twice. Does the first one need to be there for the while loop to run?
Coming up with the script I had so far had been a great learning experience, but I learned more from understanding the changes you made than I have in weeks of reading message boards and guides. Thanks a million.
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NAME
IDLE - An Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python
SYNTAX
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] [ file ...]
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] ( -c cmd | -r file ) [ arg ...]
idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] - [ arg ...]
DESCRIPTION
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IDLE is an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python. IDLE is based on Tkinter, Python's bindings to the Tk widget set. Features are
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OPTIONS
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-n Run IDLE without a subprocess (see Help/IDLE Help for details).
The following options will override the IDLE 'settings' configuration:
-e Open an edit window.
-i Open a shell window.
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-c cmd Run the command in a shell, or
-r file
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[arg]* and [file]* are passed to the command (-c) or script (-r) in sys.argv[1:].
EXAMPLES
idle Open an edit window or shell depending on IDLE's configuration.
idle foo.py foobar.py
Edit the files, also open a shell if configured to start with shell.
idle -est "Baz" foo.py
Run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP, edit foo.py, and open a shell window with the title "Baz".
idle -c "import sys; print sys.argv" "foo"
Open a shell window and run the command, passing "-c" in sys.argv[0] and "foo" in sys.argv[1].
idle -d -s -r foo.py "Hello World"
Open a shell window, run a startup script, enable the debugger, and run foo.py, passing "foo.py" in sys.argv[0] and "Hello World" in
sys.argv[1].
echo "import sys; print sys.argv" | idle - "foobar"
Open a shell window, run the script piped in, passing '' in sys.argv[0] and "foobar" in sys.argv[1].
SEE ALSO
python(1).
AUTHORS
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