system command

Daniel Fackrell dfackrell at DELETETHIS.linuxmail.org
Thu Jun 13 13:51:26 EDT 2002


Assumption: You are referring to the "source" command as provided by the
bash shell on some *nix.

The man page for bash suggests that you probably want:

print "source "+root+".in"
os.system("bash "+root+".in")

--
Daniel Fackrell (dfackrell at linuxmail.org)
When we attempt the impossible, we can experience true growth.

"Thor" <thor__00 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aeajuh$5b5eo$1 at ID-108351.news.dfncis.de...
> Having this code
>
>   print "source "+root+".in"
>   os.system("source "+root+".in")
>
> the script does not run the root+".in" file, but copying and pasting the
> output form teh 1st line work.. what i'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance
> --
> Thor -- Stockholm -- Sverige





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