Calling other scripts

[dciampa]

I have two scripts that analyze data, now I'd like to have one script that calls each of these two scripts. I can't just copy and paste the code from each script into one because the location of each script is important.

I would just like to know the function or the format in which you can call in other scripts to be run. Overall I want to call these two scripts which will analyze the data, then have that analysis printed onto a text document.

Is that understandable?

Thanks in advance!
DC

[AndiPersti]

For just calling another program within your own program, use system().

If you also need to process the result from the other program you need some communication between both programs. If the other program is able to read the data from a file and save its output to a file it's pretty easy.
There are also other forms of inter-process communications (IPC).

Bye, Andreas

[dwks]

If you have two standalone programs that you want to run, you may be better off just writing a bash or shell script to execute them both. It will be simpler, especially if you're just running one program and feeding its output to another program. Examples:

#!/bin/sh
dir1/analyze > intermediate.txt
dir2/format < intermediate.txt > formatted.txt

#!/bin/sh
dir1/analyze | dir2/format > formatted.txt

etc.