That reminds me: on OS X, I sometimes use a shell script like this: #!/bin/sh exec /Applications/j64-803/bin/jconsole "$@"
This particular example offers no advantage over a symbolic link, but if you want variations on a theme, scripts start being nice. Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:47 PM, Joey K Tuttle <j...@qued.com> wrote: > Very nice! > > I did run into a little frustration in OS X Terminal - where jconsole is by > default a tarpit of java stuff. So either the path to jconsole in the J > bundle, or an alias (I do a symbolic link of ja to be jconsole) removes my > angst. Examples (in reverse order): > > $ ja -js 'echo %. i.2 2x' 'exit 0' > _3r2 1r2 > 1 0 > > $ /Applications/j64-803/bin/jconsole -js 'echo %. i.2 2x' 'exit 0' > > Where $ is the rightmost character of the command line prompt. > > Thank you, > > On 2015/03/03 17:10 , Raul Miller wrote: >> >> Actually, it occurs to me that there's a simpler approach, which might >> sometimes be wiser - arrange for standard input to be something other >> than the keyboard. For example, under unix: >> >> :|jconsole -js 'echo 1+1' >> >> You'll get a prompt before the exit, but you can avoid that with an >> explicit exit statement: >> >> :|jconsole -js 'echo i.3 3' 'exit 0' >> >> Under windows this can be a bit uglier: >> >> echo ] >blah.txt >> jconsole -js 'echo i.3 3' < blah.txt >> >> So... why is this a good idea? >> >> Well, a problem with using something like "9!:29]1[9!:27 'exit 1'" is >> that this suppresses the display of any error messages. By instead >> specifying an empty (or nearly empty) file as standard input, you get >> to see the error message and stack trace. >> >> And you should not care if the display looks a bit messy under error >> conditions - your real concern should be in alleviating the error. >> >> (But if you want an error exit code, you might still want to use some >> variation on the other approach...) >> >> Thanks, >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
