Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have a shell script which will start a process in my prodution server.

I want to write one more script as a cron job, which will start the first script at regular intervals.

My question is what are the things I have to make sure to invoke the first script in second script.

Can I directly write the script name as a command in the second script, will that be sufficient to run it.

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You may invoke the other script using "source" comand:

source name_second_script

Actually unless you specifically want the script you call to be invoked as part of the calling script, you just name it, like you guessed. It will then be invoked as a separate process (whereas if you use "source" it will be sort of inlined in the current script).

There is a time and a place for "source" and that is mainly if the sourced script needs to set variables etc. which persist in the script which invoked it.

(It's not called "source" in proper Bourne shell; the command is just . (dot).)