[Gambas-user] No EXEC Output but Works in Terminal

[Richard Gladman]

A Person wrote:
> Good Day . . .
>
> I am using Gambas 2.8.2-1ubuntu1.
>
> I wrote a program that randomly displays a line from a text file. The 
> code worked in pure Gambas but then I tried to improve it! (Ho Ho Ho)
>
> I searched around and I came up with and modified an executable BASH 
> script (test.sh) that worked substantially faster than my code so I 
> tried to incorporate it into the source code.
>
> During my testing I continuously ran tests in a terminal and 
> everything worked perfectly with the script. I tried it in my code using
>
> ## EXEC ["~/test.sh"] to sOutPut or EXEC ["~/./test.sh"] to sOutPut
>
> and nothing worked. sOutPut was always "".
>
> The attached tar file contained a small program that contains an 
> example EXEC problem code. A modified test.sh script is included along 
> with a dummy data file, words.txt.
>
> Any ideas about the EXEC problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
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I tried your code and got the same results as you did. Changing the To 
sOutPut to a WAIT revealed an error message that it couldn't find the 
script. I corrected the path to the script in the EXEC line and it worked.

Hope this helps

Richard.

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