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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
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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:
>
>> 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_...

Thanks Mike, that's better.

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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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