Shell Programming and Scripting

As there are no periods in your script name apart from the suffix, yes this will work. Obviously as you have seen though, there is no need to hard code your script name within your script itself. I would definitely recommend enclosing your variables within curly braces as I mentioned in the previous post. For example: ${_INTRA_PATH}

Pilent -

Okay thank you. Sorry, i'm very new to shell scripting. What is the advantage of the curly braces? And Should each variable receive them?

For instance:

Code:

_LOGFILE=${_INTRA_PATH}/${_DATETIMESTAMP}_${_SN%%.sh*}.log

Apart from looking a lot cleaner and making your code much more readable, enclosing your variable names with curly braces is good practice as you are likely to encounter situations where curly braces are required, for example:
Most importantly, in your code your "$_LOGFILE" variable will actually break unless you enclose your "$_DATETIMESTAMP" variable with curly braces (as you have done in your recent post). Otherwise it will try to find a variable called "$_DATETIMESTAMP_" which does not exist.

Pilent -

So best practice is to enclose every variable like that? Awesome! Thank you very much, I'll adjust all my scripts now.

Thank you again for all your help!

Yes I would say so and no problem.