Re: running idl from a cron job

On 1 Feb, 19:36, pgri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 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...@[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- 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