Use of variable or system maintained field in config file printer definition?

[James Flanagan]

Laura, 

That is the exact solution I was looking for.  Thank you very much, 


James Flanagan
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> On Aug 11, 2018, at 2:55 PM, Laura Brody <laura.k.brody at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you send the output through a pipe, rather than direct to a filename, the shell gets involved and will expand environment variables:
> 
> printer7=txt,nocodes,|cat >/home/$LOGNAME/report.txt
> 
> This is one of the rare cases where a "useless use of cat" isn't so useless.
> 
> Laura Brody
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 2:14 PM James Flanagan via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>> wrote:
> Filepro 5.7.00.09D4
> FreeBSD 10.3
> 
> What I am trying to is something like the following so that printer’s output destination is controlled by the value of a variable.  Otherwise I would need to define a separate printer for each user, which is too unwieldily.  And yes, I realize, I could print to a single destination, such as /tmp and then use a system command to move the file with appropriate variable right afterwards (which is actually what I am doing now).  However, if possible, I would much prefer to be able to have the printer conditionally put the output directly where it is intended to go, all in a single step.  
> 
> Is this possible in Filepro?  The 2 examples below do NOT work and the variables are treated as actual values, and not what the variable represents.  
> 
> printer7=txt,nocodes,>/home/@id/report.txt
> 
> Or 
> 
> printer7=txt,nocodes,>home/$LOGNAME/report.txt
> 
> Thank you very much, in advance.  
> 
> 
> James Flanagan
> Flantec.com <http://flantec.com/ <http://flantec.com/>>
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