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Old 08-12-2008
One shell script --2 parts need to execute during different times

Hi All,

Have one job . first part of it needs to run on five days of the week , while second part of the job needs to run on two days of the week. How do I go abt this?

Thanks
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Old 08-12-2008
You can create/set some flag/lock (Physical file) everytime when you run script and update it accordingly.

- nilesh
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Old 08-12-2008
Or just create a wrapper which looks at the day of week (date +%w) and branches accordingly. Or set up a cron job which runs one part on, say, Mon and Thu and the other part on other days.
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