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| Re: running idl from a cron job [message #59075 is a reply to message #58426] |
Thu, 06 March 2008 01:37  |
rlayberry
Messages: 33
Registered: November 2004
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On 5 Mar, 15:43, "mgal...@gmail.com" <mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 7:44 am, rlaybe...@hotmail.com wrote:
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>> Thanks for this. I had a play with it and what i do now is just put
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>> idl -IDL_STARTUP myfile
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>> in the shell script called from the cron job
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>> and myfile is the batchfile which is run
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> You can do that without the using the startup option:
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> $ idl myfile
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> will run the myfile.pro batch file (put an exit at the end if you want
> IDL to quit at the end). You can also execute an arbitrary command:
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> $ idl -e "surface, hanning(20, 20)"
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> Full options are described in the online help here:
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> http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/Command_Line_Opt ions_for_...
Thanks Mike, that's better.
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| Re: running idl from a cron job [message #59091 is a reply to message #58426] |
Wed, 05 March 2008 07:43 |
Michael Galloy
Messages: 1114
Registered: April 2006
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On Mar 5, 7:44 am, rlaybe...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for this. I had a play with it and what i do now is just put
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> idl -IDL_STARTUP myfile
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> in the shell script called from the cron job
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> and myfile is the batchfile which is run
You can do that without the using the startup option:
$ idl myfile
will run the myfile.pro batch file (put an exit at the end if you want
IDL to quit at the end). You can also execute an arbitrary command:
$ idl -e "surface, hanning(20, 20)"
Full options are described in the online help here:
http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/Command_Line_Opt ions_for_IDL_Startup.html
Mike
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www.michaelgalloy.com
Tech-X Corporation
Software Developer II
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| Re: running idl from a cron job [message #59097 is a reply to message #58562] |
Wed, 05 March 2008 06:44 |
rlayberry
Messages: 33
Registered: November 2004
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On 1 Feb, 19:36, pgri...@gmail.com wrote:
> Well, here's how I do it (there may be other ways tough).
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> Define a shell script doing two things:
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> - set up an IDL_STARTUP environmental variable with the full path to a
> valid
> IDL program (let's say is called idl_startup.pro)
> - start idl
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> Then, in idl_startup.pro put in
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> [your initialization for IDL]
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> your_program
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> exit
> end
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> This way, you can put the shell script in your cron table,
> and this will execute your IDL initializations, then
> the program called your_program and exit IDL when
> your_program is finished.
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> Ciao,
> Paolo
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> rlaybe...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> hi
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>> can someone give me a link to show how to run an idl peice of code
>> from a unix shell script
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>> thanks
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>> russ- Hide quoted text -
Hi
Thanks for this. I had a play with it and what i do now is just put
idl -IDL_STARTUP myfile
in the shell script called from the cron job
and myfile is the batchfile which is run
russ
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