Hi all To add to Steve's answer, there is also the Ferret startup option -script which allows you to pass a script and its arguments to Ferret. It can be combined with other startup options: ferret -gif -script 4 12 "label" Ansley Steve Cousins wrote: On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Livingston, Claire wrote:Hi all, We are trying to make ferret more automated. One way would be to write a script in something else calling for one particular day a month to run a ferret script. The question I have is, how to execute the script? I know we can write a script to call up ferret, but because you have to be in ferret to say go *.jnl, a batch file would not work.Hi Claire, You can do this like: ferret -batch < your.jnl or ferret -gif < your.jnl For instance I have a monthly process that creates a bottom temperature plot where the Ferret part of it is: echo "use monthave.$1.cdf" > gif.jnl echo "FILL/K=1/levels=(-2,28,.3)/KEY=CONTINUOUS/NOLABELS/NOAXIS/NOKEY TEMP,'X','Y'" >> gif.jnl echo "FRAME/FILE=$1.gif" >> gif.jnl echo "quit" >> gif.jnl ferret -gif < gif.jnl Good luck, Steve ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: cousins@umit.maine.edu Marine Sciences, 208 Libby Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302I would be grateful for any suggestions. Thanks, Claire Livingston Oceanographer Naval Oceanographic Office Stennis Space Center (228) 689-8263 livingstonc@navo.navy.mil |