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Old 10-25-2018
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Originally Posted by rohit_shinez
Let me explain you clearly. The expectation of script_1 - every month 25th it would run. Script_2 - every day and script_3 every quarterly month end. For eg. if script_1 fails due to any reason on 25th and if i re-run the main_script on 26th. In this scenario script_1 will not run on 26th but i would like to run on 26th because it failed on 25th but i tried re-running on next day or any other day on same month, if i re-run the main_Script for that month then it should script_1 should run. In this scenario if i take script_2 which runs every day shouldn't run for again because it was already successful on 25th daily run
If you want to force the main script to run script_1 learn about getopt/getopts and put in a flag to force the running of script_1:
Code:
force_script1="false"
while getopts f optName
do
   case "$optName" in
      f) force_script1="true" ;;
      *) ;; # just ignore for now
   esac
done
shift $((OPTIND - 1))

Now if the date is not the 25th you check to see whether ${force_script1} is set to "true" (the string, not the boolean).
I don't understand why you don't want to run script_2 if you are having to rerun script_1. It's a different day; you are running script_2 daily. Right? Unless the main script is being run daily from cron?

And there is this:
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In this scenario if i take script_2 which runs every day shouldn't run for again because it was already successful on 25th daily run
which implies that script_2 should not run EVER on the 26th because it ran successfully on the 25th!

Andrew
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