Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Hi Mark,
On 04/18/2014 01:44 PM, Poff, Mark A wrote:
> For what it’s worth, I’m on a Linux system. In the MEDM display’s Shell
> Command ‘Command’ field I put the executable name - foo.exe - and in the
> ‘Arguments’ field I put the line you recommend, echo ‘caget -t myPV’,
> where myPV is the target PV name.
Ok, maybe you didn't fully understand my example — sorry, I was using
'echo' as my example of the command (your foo.exe).
You do need to know the difference between a regular single quote
character ' and the back-tick character ` which is the quote to the left
of the 1 digit on most US PC keyboards. The back-tick quote tells the
shell that is executing your command-line "run the contents of this
string as a command and substitute its output for this string in the
actual command when you run that."
So for your case, you would need to put the following string into the
'Arguments' field:
`caget -t myPV`
Where the first and last characters of that are a back-tick quote, and
myPV is whatever PV name you want the value of. When you click the
button and MEDM runs the command, the shell will first execute the
caget, then append the output from that command onto the foo.exe
command-line.
If you have a local Unix/Linux expert they may be able to help you with
this, which is really just a one-line shell command.
HTH,
- Andrew
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