Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:47:13 -0400

On 4/2/09 5:23 PM, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have several substitution files, which I could load with a series of
> dbLoadTemplate. Is there a way to have only one dbLoadTemplate hand have
> a substitution file such as follow:
> 
> cat master_substitution_file<<EOT
> include substitution_file_1
> include substitution_file_2
> include substitution_file_3
> EOT 
> 
> and in stcmd
> 
> dbLoadTemplate("$PATH/master_substitution_file")
> 
> Well, this doesn't seem to work.
> is there a way to include dbTemplate/substitution together?

Hi, Emmanuel.

You can concatenate a bunch of substitutions files into one big
substitutions file using the UNIX cat command and shell redirection.  Is
this what you're wanting or are you wanting to do this at run-time?

For example:

$ ls -1
ipUnidig.substitutions
motor.substitutions
scanParms.substitutions
$ cat *.substitutions > all.substitutions

Move all.substitutions to the desired location (typically the same
directory as st.cmd).

Then in st.cmd:

dbLoadTemplate("all.substitutions")

Lewis

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J. Lewis Muir
Software Engineer
IMCA-CAT/CARS

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System