Originally Posted by agama

An if statement requires a then and not do which is causing your error. I'd also change how you create your stats file name to make it more efficient.

Code:

# create stat file name with one date command, save it for use later
sfile=$(date "+status.%m.%d.txt")
touch $sfile

If the shell you're using doesn't support $(...) then use back-quotes, but this syntax is now preferred.

Code:

    if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
            echo $job_name >>$sfile   # use saved name rather than recomputing
    fi

You should also add the -q option to the grep command unless you really want to see all of the matches on the tty. It will also make grep a bit more efficient as it won't need to read all of the output.

Code:

grep -q "Job Status : RUN FAILED (3)"

If your grep doesn't support this, you can send the output to /dev/null.

Hope this helps.