| Re: Opening SDF file with Datawarrior from command line [message #577 is a reply to message #418] |
Thu, 20 June 2019 12:46  |
nbehrnd
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Registered: June 2019
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Facing a similar situation to call DataWarrior either from the terminal
of Linux, or within a Python script within a loop, I created an alias
for the bash.
There are at least two options to provide the necessary information to
the operating system. Either a) create / edit file '.bashrc' in your
home directory which typically includes many more instructions how bash
shall work. If however this file contains a block
if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi
then you may b) create and edit file '.bash_aliases' in your home directory
which then is only about these user-defined shorthands. In either case,
add
alias datawarrior="/opt/datawarrior/datawarrior"
as new instruction. Omit the "%F" you may see in the program launcher.
More importantly though, do not use spaces prior, nor after the equal
sign. Save the edit and restart the terminal. Now all you have to enter
is 'datawarrior' as keyword. This is working fine on an installation of
Xubuntu LTS 18.04.2.
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