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Re: running idl from a cron job [message #58562 is a reply to message #58426]

Fri, 01 February 2008 11:36

pgrigis
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Registered: September 2007

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Well, here's how I do it (there may be other ways tough).

Define a shell script doing two things:

- 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

Then, in idl_startup.pro put in

[your initialization for IDL]

your_program

exit
end

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.

Ciao,
Paolo

rlaybe...@hotmail.com wrote:
> hi
>
> can someone give me a link to show how to run an idl peice of code
> from a unix shell script
>
> thanks
>
> russ

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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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