Bash M1## how to use the P word

MaHa wrote:

eg.  for case 100 i was successful with

Code:

case $1 in      100.000000)

 

Would you mind giving more context on what your code does?

It's from the timestamp for logfiles, still in use.
When   M150 P100  is called,  somehow the case statement is matching only, when testing 100 as 100.000000
forum.linuxcnc.org/20-g-code/36148-times...ogfile-solved#128037

There was a change in LinuxCNC a while ago, i think all the former integers are now float. To change this you need to work with float in bash or convert. You can do this in the Goode or in bash.

Thanks guys. When I get a chance I will give that a shot.

That unfortunately didn't work. I have a feeling I have misunderstood how the M1## bash system works. 
if I enter this M170 in linuxcnc it works
#!/bin/bash
halcmd setp classicladder.0.in-50 true
exit 0 ;

however this M170 P01 code doesn't
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
         01)
         halcmd setp classicladder.0.in-50 true
         ;;
esac
exit 0 ;

their must be alot of things going on behind the scenes in linuxcnc that I can't
see,  know about,  or probably don't understand.
I do have a theory that I may need to come up with a hal component to make
use of the P## as a varriable and the hal component determines what pins
to switch high or low instead of it happening in the M170 bash command.

Run LinuxCNC from command line

And change the script to:

however this M170 P01 code doesn't
#!/bin/bash
echo „P:“
echo $1
case $1 in
01)
echo „case true“
halcmd setp classicladder.0.in-50 true ;;
esac
exit 0

There you should see what the P value is