20050125: pqact.conf syntax - piping...or exec

Dan,

Your pattern below is incorrect. It should end with:
    /p(N0R|N0V)

The first 3 letters of the PIL are N0R or N0V, eg
N0REAX or N0VEAX.

The pattern you had was looking for N0R reflectivity from a station N0V.


After that change, the \4 argument would be replaced by either
N0R or N0V (depending on the product. Your csh would then
access this as $1.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: "Daniel Leins" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200501251919.j0PJJSv2007957

>To whom...
>
>I am looking to add an entry into my pqact.gempak file which will
>execute a script upon receipt of data.  I had written a script to decode
>nexrad data as it came in, but was never successful in getting it to run
>via pqact.gempak.  It ran fine via crontab though, making me think my
>syntax in the pqact file was bad.  To confirm this, I wrote a small
>shell script that would simply rename a file in my home directory.  This
>worked fine via crontab, but not through pqact.
>
>This is my pqact.gempak entry...
>
>NEXRAD  ^SDUS[2357]. KEAX
>([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(N0R)(N0V)
>       EXEC    /home/dan/rename.csh
>
>Can someone enlighten me on what I might have done wrong in this
>situation?  The spacing is correct, i.e. tabs are where they should be,
>this email has probably shifted things erroneously.
>
>Also, if i wanted to pass an argument to my script, such as N0R or N0V,
>how would I do this?
>
>NEXRAD...
>       EXEC /home/dan/rename.csh \4 ?
>
>Any help in this matter would be appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
Dan Leins
>
>
>
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