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Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? [message #87726 is a reply to message #87719]

Tue, 25 February 2014 08:02

Mats Löfdahl
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Registered: January 2012

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Den tisdagen den 25:e februari 2014 kl. 16:35:31 UTC+1 skrev Paul van Delst:
> Hello,
>
> I have a bunch of cronjobs that run various tests daily. A shell script
> is invoked that does all the heavy lifting, invoking various compiled
> executables.
>
> What I would like to do is to add an additional step to my script that
> invokes IDL to plot the results of those tests.
>
> I have an IDL batch file that I can invoke at the IDL prompt that
> generates the plots.
>
> But how do I invoke that batch file at the OS prompt in a
> non-interactive shell process?

Put the commands you would give at the IDL prompt (like, .run batch.pro) in a file (say, promptcommands.pro). Then you can run it from the shell like this:

$ idl < promptcommands.pro

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		How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 25 February 2014 07:35
		Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 25 February 2014 07:41
		Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 February 2014 07:47
		Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: Helder Marchetto on Tue, 25 February 2014 07:58
		Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 25 February 2014 08:02
		Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 25 February 2014 08:04
		Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 25 February 2014 08:18
		Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: Matthew Argall on Tue, 25 February 2014 12:45
		Re: How to use IDL in a cronjob? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 25 February 2014 14:22

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