[GRASS-user] Call script automatically when launching Grass-GIS]

[Luís Ferreira]

> Dom, 2008-09-21 às 16:53 +1000, Richard Chirgwin escreveu:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 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'?

If you are using GNU/Linux see cron, gnome-schedule, kcron and bcron for scheduled tasks.