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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
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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
>
> idl -IDL_STARTUP myfile
>
> in the shell script called from the cron job
>
> 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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		running idl from a cron job By: rlayberry on Fri, 01 February 2008 09:19
		Re: running idl from a cron job By: Benjamin Hornberger on Sat, 02 February 2008 10:25
		Re: running idl from a cron job By: Michael Galloy on Fri, 01 February 2008 14:26
		Re: running idl from a cron job By: pgrigis on Fri, 01 February 2008 11:36
		Re: running idl from a cron job By: rlayberry on Wed, 05 March 2008 06:44
		Re: running idl from a cron job By: rlayberry on Thu, 06 March 2008 01:37
		Re: running idl from a cron job By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 05 March 2008 07:43

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