There is another solution to this problem, but you have to add some code to your `myscript.sh'. Put some kind of lock while your program is runing, e.g. if your program is a shell script, you can add the following lines:
I prefer this kind of coding in such cases, because it's better to protect this kind of programs to run overlaping processes. So, either you prefer cron, or sleeping nohup shell scripts, the process is vulnerable to run in simultaneus instances; if you use some kind of locking this is impossible.
Bye...
test.ksh
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#!/usr/bin/ksh
APPLICATION=hr_app
APPLICATION_UPPER=`echo $APPLICATION | tr `
echo $APPLICATION_UPPER > /tmp/test.txt
echo $APPLICATION >> /tmp/test.txt
which tr >> /tmp/test.txt
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When I run this from the shell:
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if
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