I think actually
   shell&.>  zipth <@,"1 lp
is needed, since lp has rank 2. Or, if you're into less boxing and
(slightly) less maintainable code,
   zipth <@shell@,"1 lp

Marshall

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote:

> you need:
>   shell &.> zipth&, &.> lp
>
> Just for clarity the definition of ( each ) is ( &.> ) (defined in
> stdlib.ijs at boot of J session)
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Skip Cave <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > David M suggested:
> >
> >   # shell&.> zipth, each lp
> > |length error
> > |   #shell&.>zipth    ,each lp
> >
> > That didn't work..
> >
> >   #lp
> > 10
> >   lp
> > c:\test4\00-00-36-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab4224_0060_0000/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-02-36-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab429c_0061_0000/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-02-45-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab42a5_0062_0000/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-05-24-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab4344_0063_0000/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-08-24-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab43f8_0064_0000/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-09-39-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab4443_0065_0000/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-36-16-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00001cd4_4eab4a7f_0001_0000/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-36-31-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00001cd4_4eab4a8f_0002_0002/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-39-28-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00001cd4_4eab4b40_0003_0000/log.gz
> > c:\test4\00-40-53-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00001cd4_4eab4b95_0004_0002/log.gz
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:57 PM, David Mitchell <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> One way would be to try this:
> >>
> >> shell&.> zipth, each lp
> >> --
> >> David Mitchell
> >>
> >> On 11/9/2011 17:37, Skip Cave wrote:
> >> > OK, I have figured out how to get a list of each of the paths to each
> of
> >> > the log.gz files in my directory tree.
> >> >
> >> >     lp =: (>  1 }. 1 dirpath 'c:\test4') ,"1 '/log.gz'
> >> >     lp
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-00-36-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab4224_0060_0000/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-02-36-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab429c_0061_0000/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-02-45-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab42a5_0062_0000/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-05-24-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab4344_0063_0000/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-08-24-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab43f8_0064_0000/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-09-39-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00000d48_4eab4443_0065_0000/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-36-16-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00001cd4_4eab4a7f_0001_0000/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-36-31-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00001cd4_4eab4a8f_0002_0002/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-39-28-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00001cd4_4eab4b40_0003_0000/log.gz
> >> >
> c:\test4\00-40-53-vx1prn123-7b42060a_00001cd4_4eab4b95_0004_0002/log.gz
> >> >
> >> > I know this is a bit of a brute force approach, but it ets the job
> done.
> >> > Since I know that there is one log.gz file in each subdirectory, I can
> >> > append the '/log.gz' string on the end of each directory path, to
> >> complete
> >> > the full path. I assume that there is some 'findfiles' utility that
> can
> >> do
> >> > the same job more elegantly without jamming strings together, but I
> >> haven't
> >> > found it as yet.
> >> >
> >> > Now that I have the list of file paths, I need to open each file and
> >> > operate on it.
> >> >
> >> > I have predefined two path nouns:
> >> >
> >> >     zipth
> >> > "c:\Gzip\gzip.exe -d -c"
> >> >     filepth
> >> > c:\test3\log.gz
> >> >
> >> > So, I can pull out a file and unzip it, given the file path:
> >> >
> >> >   $  shell zipth, filepth
> >> > 237567
> >> >
> >> > But that is just one log.gz file unzipped into a text array. Now I
> need
> >> to
> >> > iterate through all of the list of log file paths I extracted above,
> and
> >> > create an array of boxed text strings, one boxed string per expanded
> >> log.gz
> >> > file. "lp" contains the list of files, one path per row.
> >> >
> >> >   $  shell zipth, lp
> >> > |rank error: uucp
> >> > |   r=.CreateProcessF 0;(    uucp y);0;0;inh;f;0;0;si;pi
> >> >
> >> > That won't work.
> >> >
> >> >   $  shell zipth, each lp
> >> > |length error
> >> > |   $shell zipth    ,each lp
> >> >
> >> > Nope.
> >> >
> >> > How can you make the shell command iterate through the list of files,
> to
> >> > unzip each log.gz file and put each unzipped text string in a new
> boxed
> >> > array?
> >> >
> >> > Skip
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