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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Umbrella Scripting(very Urgent) Post 302181865 by ag79 on Friday 4th of April 2008 10:37:41 AM

04-04-2008

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okay, for you to know whether the command was successful or not, each of the three scripts have to return come sort of code, like 0 for success and nonzero for failure.

then, you write a wrapper like this

#!/bin/sh

#Try doing "step 1" five times
step1timedout=1
for k in 1 2 3 4 5
do

#STEP 1: CONVERT XML files to PS files
convert_xml_files_to_ps.sh #replace this with your command

#get the return code
retcode=$?

#if success, break from loop
if [ $retcode -eq 0]
then
step1timedout=0
break
fi
done

#Check if step 1 timed out
if [ $step1timedout -eq 1]
then
echo "Step 1 failed to execute after 5 tries, aborting execution..."
exit 255
fi

#STEP 2: CONVERT ALL PS FILES TO PDF FILES
#repeat the code for step 1

#STEP 3: FTPING ALL PDF FILES TO THE SERVER.
#repeat the code for step 1

#end of script
exit 0

Note that this is what the script will do:
1. will try executing step 1. if it is successful, it will proceed for step 2. If step 1 fails after 5 tries, the whole script will exit.
2. Step 2 will execute with the same logic
3. Step 3 will execute with the same logic

Now if you want to repeat the whoel process in a loop, you can put the whole thing in a for loop and so it as many times as you like.

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