Re: running idl from a cron job

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...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 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