Shell Programming and Scripting

I plan to run a script which will run in background and at predefined times send mails to user . I dont have acees to autosys/ Cron / at jobs

My loop works like this

Code:

 
while (true)
do
getx_time=`date +%H%M`
if [ $getx_time == "$file1_time" ]; then

script1.sh
mail_sent_flag=1
elif [ $getx_time == "$file2_time" ]; then

script2.sh
mail_sent_flag=1
elif [ $getx_time == "$file3_time" ]; then

script3.sh
mail_sent_flag=1

if mail_sent_flag=1 

sleep 60 # sleep for a minute so that i don't get bomabred in that minute 
fi
fi
done

Script 1 , Script2 , Script 3 sends mail to my login id
and the time suppose it 0100 , thn i start getting bombarded with mails , I triued using sleep command but of no help

I want only one mail for each of the above 3 cases.

Pls suggest

If you want the script to stop for a minute if the mail_set_flag is set to 1 then

Code:

if [ "$mail_sent_flag" -eq 1 ]; then
    sleep 60
fi

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