Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys:

I had written a "at" job in my script as follows...

at $originaltime <<ATEOF
evolve.sh ${OLDOFFICE} ${NEWOFFICE} > /mts/common/load/bin/EV/${OUT} 2>&1
ATEOF


But the problem is its not invoking the "evolve.sh" script...

Can you guys plz help me out.....

Do you see it with atq? What's $originaltime? Do you get any errors?

Yah..I checked atq..I am getting the following thing..
"No files in queue."..

The $originaltime is the time i am getting from the user...I am prompting like...

echo "Enter Time to run this job or RETURN to run it now. >\c"
read originaltime
if [ -z "$originaltime" ]
then
originaltime=`date '+%H%M'`
originaltime=`expr ${originaltime} + 2`
if [ ${originaltime} -ge 700 -a ${originaltime} -le 959 ]
then
originaltime="0${originaltime}"
fi
fi..

Actually the thing is if you give some time..its working..But if u press ENTER (RETURN) to run the script immediatly, it's not invoking that evolve.sh script....

What's the point of running it via at if the user requests that it be run immediately?

Doesn't your at recognize the time "now"?

I'd agree with era.
Your date calculations are redundant.
Almost any at should understand expressions like

Code:

echo "evolve.sh ${OLDOFFICE} ${NEWOFFICE} > /mts/common/load/bin/EV/${OUT} 2>&1" | at now +2 minutes

Of course, this would require that the dir where script evolve.sh resides
was in your $PATH, and that $OLDOFFICE, $NEWOFFICE and $OLD were set
when you fired the at job.