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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to goto in ksh Post 48621 by Perderabo on Thursday 11th of March 2004 02:22:50 PM
Old 03-11-2004
Try something like:
Code:
[[ -f $LOGFILE ]] && read lastjob <$LOGFILE
for xjob in job1 job2 job3 job4 job5 job6 ; do
       if [[ -z $lastjob || $lastjob = $xjob ]] ; then
            ./$xjob || {echo $xjob > $LOGFILE ; exit 1 ; }
       fi
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

suspend

suspend(1)                                                         User Commands                                                        suspend(1)

NAME

       suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

SYNOPSIS

   sh
       suspend

   csh
       suspend

   ksh
       suspend

DESCRIPTION

   sh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

   csh
       Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

   ksh
       Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                         suspend(1)
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