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About 10 years ago I got into K shell scripting in a big way (for a beginner). I absolutely loved it and wrote a number of database maintenance scripts that, while basic, worked extremely well.

Somehow, somewhere I picked up the style of scripting that was very similar to when I was doing Cobol programming, a central "command center" type structure (that was usually at the bottom of the script), that would direct the code to, for example, run section/paragraph/function (whatever the proper name is) 1, return to the command center, then run 2 etc. I saved off my scripts on a CD and they were lost in a move.

I spent the next 10 years in a position that did not involve scripting and I lost/forgot much of what I knew. Now I am again in a scripting position. I'd love to work on being able to recreate some of those type scripts but I haven't been able to find any source on the web or elsewhere that would detail that type scripting.

Can anyone point me to a source, book, web site etc that would enable me to get back to that type of scripting by function/module etc?

Many thanks.
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weekly.conf

WEEKLY(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							 WEEKLY(5)

NAME

     weekly, weekly.conf -- weekly maintenance

DESCRIPTION

     The /etc/weekly script is run, by default, every Saturday morning on a NetBSD system.  The /etc/weekly.conf file specifies which of the stan-
     dard weekly services are performed.

     The variables described below can be set to ``YES'' or ``NO'' in the /etc/weekly.conf file.  The default settings are in the
     /etc/defaults/weekly.conf file.  (Note that you should never edit /etc/defaults/weekly.conf directly, as it is often replaced during system
     upgrades.)

     rebuild_locatedb  This rebuilds the locate(1) database, /var/db/locate.database, which must also exist, in order to be rebuilt.

     rebuild_mandb     This rebuilds the apropos(1) database /var/db/man.db, using makemandb(8) with the -f option.

     rebuild_whatisdb  This rebuilds the whatis(1) database(s).  Note that NetBSD provides a default whatis.db for the system manual pages and
		       this may not be needed.	(Adjust your /etc/man.conf as necessary; see man.conf(5) for details.)

FILES

     /etc/weekly	weekly maintenance script
     /etc/weekly.conf	weekly maintenance configuration
     /etc/weekly.local	local site additions to /etc/weekly

SEE ALSO

     daily.conf(5), monthly.conf(5)

HISTORY

     The /etc/weekly script first appeared in 4.3BSD.  The /etc/weekly.conf configuration file appeared in NetBSD 1.3.

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