Re: if-then-else in iocsh

[Maren Purves <m.purves@jach.hawaii.edu>]

Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
>
> > I would like to check for the settings of an environment variable in
> > iocsh. If the envrionment variable is not set, then I want to set it to
> > a default value.
> > Is there any way to do that ?
>
> Yes, but how depends what variables you're trying to set, and whether 
> this is for a particular IOC or all IOCs using a particular version of 
> EPICS Base.  The ioc shell is not intended to be a programming language, 
> and it doesn't (and never will) provide conditional commands, so you 
> can't just put something in the startup script that will work for any 
> environment variable.

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I had interpreted this yet different, and my first reaction was
"you use a subroutine record" ...

What are you trying to do?

Aloha,

Maren