Re: running idl from a cron job

On 5 Mar, 15:43, "mgal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <mgal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 7:44=A0am, rlaybe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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> > Thanks for this. =A0I had a play with it and what i do now is just put
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> > idl -IDL_STARTUP myfile
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> > in the shell script called from the cron job
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> > and myfile is the batchfile which is run
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> You can do that without the using the startup option:
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> =A0 $ idl myfile
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> 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:
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> =A0 $ idl -e "surface, hanning(20, 20)"
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> Full options are described in the online help here:
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> http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/idl_html_help/Command_Line_Options_for_...

Thanks Mike, that's better.