Thanks! That worked perfectly!
On Sunday, December 7, 2014 7:28:03 PM UTC-8, Isaiah wrote: > > You could use setenv: > http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#Base.setenv > > `run` in Julia executes calls directly (setting up the environment, > interpolating, and spawning subprocess) - not via the shell. So, built-ins > like `export` don't work. > > See this blog post for some more information: > http://julialang.org/blog/2012/03/shelling-out-sucks/ > > (I do think it would be convenient to allow single-shot environment > changes as keyword arguments to `run`. not sure if there is an open issue > for this already, but it feels like something that has come up before) > > On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 9:48 PM, David Koslicki <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to sort a large (4G) file consisting only of strings of >> length 50 on the alphabet {A,C,T,G}. While the built in Julia sort() works, >> it uses quite a bit of memory. I have had good success using the linux >> command LC_ALL=C sort larg_file.txt -o out.txt, but get the following error >> when I try to evaluate the command run(`LC_ALL=C sort larg_file.txt -o >> out.txt`) in Julia: >> >> ERROR: could not spawn `LC_ALL=C sort large_file.txt -o out.txt`: no such >> file or directory (ENOENT) >> in _jl_spawn at process.jl:217 >> in spawn at process.jl:348 >> in spawn at process.jl:389 >> in run at process.jl:470 >> >> Running the command >> export LC_ALL=C in the shell before running Julia works, but I would like >> to be able to do this directly from Julia. Unfortunately, the command >> run(`export LC_ALL=C`) also returns the error: >> >> ERROR: could not spawn `export LC_ALL=C`: no such file or directory >> (ENOENT) >> in _jl_spawn at process.jl:217 >> in spawn at process.jl:348 >> in spawn at process.jl:389 >> in run at process.jl:470 >> >> Does anyone know how to set LC_ALL=C in julia using run()? >> >> Thanks, >> >> ~David >> > >
