Richard Chirgwin wrote: > I have a few user machines with lots of maps to deal with, and I want to > centralize the map catalogues. So what I would like to do is: > > - start Grass-GIS in text mode in a location (/home/user/grassdata/location) > - automatically launch the script (which is a simple bash loop on > g.mlist, calling on v.info and r.info to pull the metadata into a text file) > - exit at the end. > > The script works fine if I execute it in Grass-GIS but I would like to > have it run without intervention. That way, I can schedule the catalogue > to run overnight on all machines. So is there a way to pass the script > to Grass-GIS to run 'hands-off'?
Just set the necessary environment variables at the top of the script. You can get a complete list of environment variables by searching for "export" in etc/Init.sh, but the main ones are PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, GISBASE, GISRC and GIS_LOCK. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
