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> On Feb 10, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Eric wrote:
>> The "cp" command doesnt append files together before the copy, as is the case in
>> the DOS version of "copy". There's probably other *nix commands to do this, but it might be a better
>> idea if you can write them all into the same file from Stata using -file write-. Or you could add them together
>> first using something similar to "appendfile" (from SSC).
Sure, I mentioned that "cp" couldn't append them together in my posting, but that he might look for another unix command
(or option for "cp") that would work (The "cp" command I provided was incorrect, but I stated that upfront & was using it
only as an illustration of how to write the platform specific "if" statements...perhaps I should have just put a placeholder to
avoid confustion). It looks like "cat" is that missing unix command, thanks for finding that.
@David:
I ran your updated version of -dodebug- (1.0.1) that uses the new Reif approach and it works great (& I do find
the macro expansion capabilities useful). You've got options to turn on hilite and depth in your program, but could I
suggest that you add the option to turn on the tracenumber when the program runs? I added it in when I was playing with
-dodebug- and I liked being able to toggle this on/off when needed.
~ Eric
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On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Kit Baum wrote:
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> This is not correct Unix syntax (and it does not work on Mac OS X). You cannot include plus signs in a cp command.
>
> bcvpn13:code baum$ cp one.file+two.file+three.files allfiles2
> cp: one.file+two.file+three.files: No such file or directory
>
> A common way to do what you are trying to do is
>
> bcvpn13:code baum$ cat one.file two.file three.file > allfiles
>
> 'cat' is short for 'concatenate', which implies the desired appending behavior. This will work on all non-Windows OS supported by Stata.
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> On Feb 10, 2010, at 2:33 AM, Eric wrote:
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>> if "`c(os)'" == "MacOSX" {
>> !cp "`top'"+"`using'"+"`bottom'" "`c(sysdir_personal)'dotemp.ado" -R
>> *( you'd need to explore the help file for "cp" to see if it could append the files first)
>> }
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