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Re: running idl from a cron job [message #59097 is a reply to message #58562]

Wed, 05 March 2008 06:44

rlayberry
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On 1 Feb, 19:36, pgri...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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- Hide quoted text -

Hi

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

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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