ace.pl now handles globs, at least for the parse command. The new
version will be part of AcePerl version 1.40, which should be
available for download tomorrow (Friday).
Lincoln
(~acedb/ricegenes/rawdata) 187% ace.pl -path ~acedb/ricegenes
aceperl> parse *.ace
parse allele.ace
// Parsing file allele.ace
// 1076 objects read with 0 errors
// 1076 Active Objects
parse author.ace
// Parsing file author.ace
// 2664 objects read with 0 errors
// 2664 Active Objects
parse chr_band.ace
// Parsing file chr_band.ace
// 156 objects read with 0 errors
// 156 Active Objects
parse colleague.ace
// Parsing file colleague.ace
// 595 objects read with 0 errors
// 595 Active Objects
parse germplasm.ace
...
Richard Durbin writes:
> >From Dave Matthews <matthews at greengenes.cit.cornell.edu>
>
> > I'd like to be able to tell tace to 'parse' a *-wildcarded list of files.
> > Ideally using regular unix globbing syntax to specify the file list. But
> > for now I'd be happy just to get "*" (or anything) to parse all files in
> > the current directory. I'm hoping in particular for a solution that works
> > in WinAce.
> > - Dave
>
> We do this sort of thing in a perl script that calls tace. I would
> imagine the nice way to do it would be to use Lincoln Stein's
> excellent AcePerl.pm, which contains a very nice ace.pl that is
> essentially a readline-enabled version of tace and aceclient. That
> gives command completion, command-line editing, command history, and
> so forth. I don't know whether it will glob file names, or whether
> some other AcePerl derived thing is better for that. I'll copy
> Lincoln in the hope he has a quick solution.
>
> Richard
>
--
========================================================================
Lincoln D. Stein Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
lstein at cshl.org Cold Spring Harbor, NY
========================================================================
