Re: st: executing commands on exit

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I think you need to ensure that your last command is

di "$S_DATE $S_TIME"

Alternatively, your last command could just close the log. It's not
really clear why you aren't doing that.

Nick

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:15 PM, A. Berâ <abdullahbera@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes but I also want to have closing date and time as we would see if
> we closed the log file manually.
>
> a.b.
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:54 PM, A. Berâ <abdullahbera@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>    How can I make Stata open a log file (with a name say temp)
>>> automatically when it starts and close it automatically when I exit
>>> Stata?
>>>
>>> I know I can put
>>>
>>> .log using temp.log, name(temp)
>>>
>>> in profile.do, but I don't know how to close it automatically when I
>>> exit Stata.
>>
>> If a log file is open when you close Stata, than closing Stata will
>> also close that log file.
>>

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