yes I have removed exit 0 and tried, it worked, but forget to tell you... sorry for that.. but still this script will send an email for the consecutive successful run following weeks.
Like.
1st week, 1strun : No mail
2nd Week, 1st run : No Mail
3rd Week, 1st run: No Mail
4th Week 1st run: You will receive mail.
This is a risk for me,. we need to update the counter every day.
So i havemade few changes.
This is working for me as expected.
Now both the scripts are working fine, I am confused which to use now.
Thank you once again wisecracker and bakunin....
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I am VERY surprised that this is working for you as expected.
The code you have above never reads n from /tmp/number, so the command shown in red above always sets n to 1. And, both lines in green write a partial line containing 1 with no terminating <newline> character to /tmp/number. And, the test shown in blue always compares 1 to 3 so you will never send mail (even if the comment "Do your email send here..." is changed to code that actually sends email).
Furthermore, n is incremented whether or not the code that replaces "Do lots of tasks here!" succeeds or fails. So, if you were reading x (instead of always setting it to 1), you would always send mail on the 3rd week, and despite the echo saying "Counter reset to 1 and email sent...", there is no code here that will reset n to 1 before the script exits with exit code 2.
If this is working as expected, I guess I don't understand what your script is supposed to do.
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