Re: st: Suppressing -log- in Linux batch mode

[Michael Barker <mdb96statalist@gmail.com>]

You could try "run" instead of "do", like this:

nohup stata -b run mydofile &

This will not stop the log from being created, but the log will only
have the Stata start-up text. This is the same behavior you would get
with quietly{ }

If you don't want the log file to show up at all, you could delete it
from within the do-file. You could pass an option to the do-file so
you could control this behavior from the command line. Your do-file
would look like this:

--top of file--

args log

-- your do-file --

if "`log'"=="nolog" {
! rm mydofile.log
}

--end of file--


Then, in linux, use one of these batch mode commands:

# With log:
nohup stata -b do mydofile &

# No log:
nohup stata -b run mydofile nolog &


Mike

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Ted Player <ted.player.660@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.  I'm using the following to run a -do- file in batch
> mode on Linux:
>
> nohup stata -b do mydofile &
>
> That works fine except that I want to suppress the -log- file that
> Stata automatically creates (for reasons that are too lengthy to
> describe here). Does anyone know a command-line switch I could add to
> prevent the -log- file from being created?
>
> Let me mention that I realize I could edit the -do- file to insert
> "quietly {" or similar solutions, but I would like leave the -do- file
> unedited to retain the ability to create the -log- file sometimes. A
> switch to easily turn the -log- file on and off from the command line
> would be the perfect solution.  Is there such a method?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> - Ted
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