When providing wildcards as arguments you should always keep in mind that it is the shell which resolves them. In the command line you wrote, the argument 12GHC01:* is being replaced by list of filenames begining with 12GHC01: and contiued anyhow. If you have no file with a matching name in your working directory (and I guess you have not), the regular expression expands to nothing and the command being effectively executed is: iccprt -p -n file.txt CP000B. When you want the wildcard to be evaluated by iccprt you must enclose the argument with quotation marks: iccprt -p -n "12GHC01:*" file.txt CP000B. Another point: you ommitted the -o option in the command line which tells the iccprt command that the following argument is the name of the output file. Regards, Ulrich Dimitris Legakis schrieb: > I actually run iccprt -p -n 12GHC01:* file.txt CP000B > > I did a typo mistake in the email and i missed the -n. Actually I never > forgot to specify the -n. > > Dimitris > > >> From: "Jeremy Milum" <jmilum@xxxxxxxxx> >> Reply-To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: [foxboro] ICCDRVR.tsk - GET script problem >> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:24:10 -0500 >> >> On 4/19/07, Dimitris Legakis <legourasj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Actually I have tried many variations of the iccprt script including the >> one >>> you propose. The only one that could work is: >>> iccprt -p 12GHC01:* file.txt CP000B >>> Which extracted all parameters of all blocks in the compound 12GHC01. >> strange as that should not work like that. let me check the docs.... >> >> (i am not sure how this will format) >> >> ********** >> Usage: iccprt [-p] [-n compound[:block]] [-o outputfile] <station> >> -n compound and/or block list to be reported (wildcards are valid); >> default is for all compounds. >> -o output file to which report will be redirected; default is to console. >> -p generate report on compound and/or block PARAMETERS rather than >> compound and/or block ORDER. >> <station> is the Control Station or volume to be reported. >> *********** >> so I don't think that running it like you did would work since you did >> not specify the -n parameter, leaving it off all together (along with >> any wildcards or comp:block specifications) should return the >> parameters for every comp:block in the CP >> >> alas, i am not at work and cannot verify all this, but I can see about >> it tomorrow. I am sure others will chime in before that and show where >> I have gone astray ;) >> >> -- ------------------------------------------- Ulrich Wieczorek Erpicon Software Development GmbH Neusser Str. 724-726 D-50737 Koeln Tel.: +49-221-9746067 Fax: +49-221-9746099 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave