Re: extreme newbie

[John Darrington]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 03:01:27PM -0700, Mogerman Rob wrote:
     
     I'm very unfamiliar with pspp but I have a data file and a definitions 
file and a client that needs a .sav file.? How would I create a .sav file via 
command line if I have the files test1.sps (spss definitions file) and 
file1.rft ( fixed ascii data file)?? Is there a good way to do this through a 
shell script from Linux?


     
If test1.sps does not already contain a SAVE command then you will need to add 
this.
For example:

$ echo SAVE OUTFILE=\"myfile.sav\". >> test1.sps
$ pspp test1.sps

(PSPP is largely operating system agnostic, so this should work on GNU/Linux 
and any platform)
     

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