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

[Richard Chirgwin]

Glynn Clements wrote:
> 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,

(Also Hamish and Luis)

Thanks! This will make life much easier ...

Richard