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Re: Silent errors in run-time [message #45847 is a reply to message #45837]

Tue, 11 October 2005 07:23

K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <1129035538.813436.242790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
otto.hyvarinen@fmi.fi wrote:

> I have a bunch of IDL scripts I want to run with cron in Linux. I have
> compiled and saved them, and now run them with 'idl
> -rt="somthing.sav"'.
>
> All is well, except when there is an error, IDL wants to open a window
> with the error message. That is not what I want. I would like to either
> put those messages to stderr or supress them altogether (I don't
> actually care what happens. If a script fails, it fails.). Is there
> some extra command line option, or something I can use?
>
> regards,
> Otto Hyv�rinen

You need to "redirect output". Syntax varies slightly depending on which shell
you are running.

In csh (and tcsh) I do something like this

idl >>& my_idl_log

to append both standard output and standard error to the file my_idl_log.

Ken Bowman

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[Message index]

		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: K. Bowman on Thu, 13 October 2005 05:30
		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: otto.hyvarinen on Thu, 13 October 2005 03:09
		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: K. Bowman on Wed, 12 October 2005 14:09
		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: Rick Towler on Wed, 12 October 2005 12:26
		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: K. Bowman on Wed, 12 October 2005 12:01
		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: Rick Towler on Wed, 12 October 2005 09:28
		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: otto.hyvarinen on Wed, 12 October 2005 00:25
		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: K. Bowman on Tue, 11 October 2005 07:23
		Re: Silent errors in run-time By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 18 October 2005 16:13

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