Hi Justin,
you can run copy&paste from a macro:
String.copyResults();
myResultsString=String.paste();
File.saveString(myResultsString, myPath);
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Alternative: call awk via the "exec" command from a macro, e.g. on
unix-type systems:
exec("/bin/sh", "-c", "awk 'NR>1' <"+myFilePathAndName+"
>"+myFilePathAndName+"_converted");
The first two arguments are needed because file redirection is
handled by the shell.
For more "exec examples", see
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/macros/ExecExamples.txt-------------
Alternatives on operating-system level:
A loop over files - here for all .txt files on Unix-type systems
!#/bin/sh
for file in `ls *.txt`
do
awk 'NR>1' <$file >converted_$file
done
The line "!#/bin/sh" should be the first line of the file.
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A loop over files in DOS is probably something like this:
set AWK=%ProgramFiles%\GnuWin32\bin\gawk.exe
for /D %%g in (*.txt) do %AWK% "NR^>1" "%%g" >"converted_%%g"
Notes on the DOS version:
- The first line sets the location of the awk program.
- Note that the ">" character in the awk command has to be escaped by
a caret; otherwise it would be a redirect into a file named "1".
- I am not sure about the quotes around "NR^>1" etc. - I don't have a
Windows machine here to try it.
- When running it on the command line, not in a batch file, you have
to replace %%g by %g.
Hope this helps,
Michael
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On 28 Oct 2008, at 21:15, Justin Walker wrote:
> Unfortunately, I need something that will work in batch mode - I
> have hundreds of images, each of which gets processed and generates
> it's own text file, so the clipboard is out.
>
> Do you know how I could implement the awk command in a batch mode?
>
> - Justin
>
> Michael Schmid wrote:
>
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>> it is easy when copying the results to the clipboard:
>> deselect Edit>Options/Input/Output Options>Copy Column Headers
>>
>> Files - on linux or MacOS (terminal), this deletes the first line:
>> (gnu awk is also available for Windows, you can run it in a DOS
>> window)
>> awk 'NR>1' <inputFile >outputFile
>>
>> Michael
>> ______________________________________________________________
>>
>> On 28 Oct 2008, at 20:43, Justin Walker wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to save the contents of the
>>> results box without the labels in the first line of the text
>>> file? I'm trying to write code to import those data files
>>> directly and do processing on them, but I'm being hung up by the
>>> row of labels, and deleting them is a pain.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, does anyone know of a simple way to delete the
>>> first line of a whole bunch of text files?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> -Justin Walker
>>> University of Maryland
>>>
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