07-16-2014
If they are both doing the same thing, then are they really two scripts? If this is a common function that they would both do, then perhaps it would be better to break that out into a separate function and organise your scheduler a little differently.
If you have Job1 & Job2 currently running in parallel, consider having Job0 to do the common renaming work and then make the remainder of Job1 & Job2 as a dependency on Job0 completing. I suppose it depends on your scheduler.
If it's cron, then it's a little tricky. Commercial schedulers should provide this job dependency control. if you are stuck with cron then consider using some sort of a file to flag that Job0 has completed and have Job1 & Job2 wait for it to appear.
As hicksd8 requests, Please post the script.
As CarloM asks though, what do you really need to achieve?
Robin
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NAME
atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs
SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script
DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library.
atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter-
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The following options are available:
-s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL.
ENVIRONMENT
ATF_LIBEXECDIR Overrides the builtin directory where atf-sh is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes.
ATF_PKGDATADIR Overrides the builtin directory where libatf-sh.subr is located. Should not be overridden other than for testing purposes.
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EXAMPLES
Scripts using atf-sh(3) should start with:
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