I have a command that involves ctags to index a large directory using python. It goes like this:
cmd = ['ctags', '-R', '-f', 'tagfile', 'my_large_dir']
subprocess.call(cmd)
#wait for ctags to finish then go on
This works perfectly on Win 7 and Ubuntu but not on Mac OSX Mavericks.
I then try to run the actual ctags command from the terminal and it works fine.
I then try to run a touch command from python to see if python has some aversion to creating files in my directory, and that works fine.
However, when I run the command above, it just hangs on the subprocess call.
Any ideas? I'm stumped and I need to figure this out by Friday :(
Update:
I forgot to mention that I had already installed the correct version of ctags from Homebrew. As ren pointed out though, when I used brew install ctags
(notice NOT using sudo) it was placed into /usr/local/bin/ctags when I was looking in /usr/bin/ctags, which still had the wrong version I believe. For some reason, the version in /usr/bin/ just hung like it had an infinite loop somewhere...wierd.
Anyway, I pointed the command to the right path and it worked.
You are probably trying to run the ctags that comes with XCode.
To use the actual ctags you are looking for:
1) If you haven't installed brew already install it -> http://brew.sh/
2) If you haven't already installed the ctags you are actually looking for:
brew install ctags
3) Then try running this ctags as:
/usr/local/bin/ctags
instead of just writingctags
Incase you can't find ctags in the directory I wrote, try running it like this ->
`brew --prefix`/bin/ctags
(yes with the quotes)