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

[Hamish]

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'?

see "Running non-interactive batch jobs" here:
  http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/grass6.html


Hamish