FiberTractMeasurements not writing to output file

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Operating system:
NAME=“Ubuntu”
VERSION=“16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)”
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME=“Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS”
VERSION_ID=“16.04”

Slicer version:
slicer nightly version (updated as of 2018-08-20)

Hi,

I’m running the following code - it runs through without error but it doesn’t write the output in the output file.

FiberTractMeasurements --outputfile $outputfolder/FiberMeasurements/$filename/$hemisphere --inputdirectory $outputfolder/AppendClusters/'OutliersPerSubject_'$filename/$hemisphere -i Fibers_File_Folder --separator Tab -f Column_Hierarchy

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I just realized that the script doesn’t work properly when the parent directory does not exist. I just created the parent directory and the code is running successfully. I think the code should be modified to either give an error message or create the directory if it does not exist.

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Fixed here. From the next nightly version, it should raise an error.

I don’t think there is a good way to check/create intermediate paths before opening a file in the current C++ version we are using (without adding a new library dependency edit: actually I guess we could use vtksys, but the second point still applies), and in any case, doing so without warning might be unwelcome in some circumstances.

Thanks for the report.