[GRASS-user] 6.4 vs 7.0

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Paolo Craveri wrote:
>> I have some scripts which perfectly work in GRASS 6.4 whereas in GRASS
>> 7.0 they give  problems.
...
>> echo "UPDATE polyNoTopology \
>> SET label='poly$a' WHERE cat=$index" | db.execute ##works in GRASS
>> 6.4; in 7.0 I need:
>> echo "UPDATE polyNoTopology \
>> SET label='poly$a' WHERE cat=$index" | db.execute in=-
>>
>> echo "5,3" | v.in.ascii out=point fs="," cat=0 --o # works perfectly
>> in 6.4 but not in 7.0
>> ## in 7.0 I have to create a file (perhaps, is there a better way?)
>> echo "5,3">coord
>> v.in.ascii input=coord out=point fs="," cat=0 --o
...
> Alternatively, you could file bug reports against the 6.4 modules for
> not accepting "-" as an input filename. There really isn't any excuse
> for not implementing this feature.

Perhaps it could become the default behaviour in 7 to read from stdin
(d.execute etc.) to mimick the behaviour of G6-d.execute?

Markus