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

[Glynn Clements]

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 <glynn at gclements.plus.com>