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Subject: Re: problem running bash script with MEDM on Windows/Cygwin
From: Tim Mooney <[email protected]>
To: Jay Steele <[email protected]>
Cc: Claus Flachenecker <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:28:19 -0600 (CST)
Jay,

This works for me on solaris:
command[0]{ 
label=”mycommand” 
name=”xterm -e” 
args=”test.sh abc” 
}

Tim

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Steele" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: "Claus Flachenecker" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:33:29 PM
> Subject: problem running bash script with MEDM on Windows/Cygwin
> Hi EPICS community,
> 
> I’m running EPICS 3.14.11 on Windows XP and using windows extensions
> 32 MEDM as the GUI. I’m trying to run bash scripts from MEDM. I’m able
> to launch a xterm from a button created using MEDM’s shell command
> palette. The xterm window runs cygwin and I’m trying to use an
> argument to xterm to run the bash script. My problem is that the
> command line arguments are not parsed correctly when I specify two
> command-line arguments for xterm. I can run the following from a
> windows DOS window: xterm –e “dxpflyscan.sh
> /cygdrive/c/epics/bash/mca1.txt”. This works to create the cygwin
> xterm window and launches the dxpflyscan.sh script with
> /cygdrive/c/epics/bash/mca1.txt as an argument. However, the following
> does not work with MEDM. I just get a flash of a DOS window.
> 
> 
> 
> “shell command” {
> 
> object {
> 
> x=70
> 
> y=167
> 
> width=127
> 
> height=42
> 
> }
> 
> command[0]{
> 
> label=”dxp-flyscan”
> 
> name=”xterm”
> 
> args=”-e “dxpflyscan.sh /cygdrive/c/epics/bash/mca1.txt””
> 
> }
> 
> 
> 
> Has anybody had better success at getting bash scripts to work with
> MEDM on windows/cygwin? MEDM does work when I only specify the shell
> script name as an argument to xterm.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jay Steele
> 
> Xradia Corporation
> 
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-- 
Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
Software Services Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab



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