Hello,

I'm writing a shell script and was wondering what the best way to have the script execute another script would be. The basics are:

Script1 would ask user for a 3 digit number. Let's say variable=250.
Script1 would then ask if 250 is really the number inputted, else it would exit.
Script1 would then kick off Script2, and exit to command line while Script2 continues to run in the background.

I know I can run nohup ./Script2 & and the output would go to nohup.out, but I want it to output to a different file (something like Log_$variable.out).

Is there a better way to do this? Can I have define where nohup sends output, instead of nohup.out?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Jared

I'm not a scripting expert, but have you thought about using perl to do this ? Then you can specify the output file exactly. Bash I don't know enough about to offer useful advice.

Good luck though...

David

You can run Script2 just like any other executable. Redirect any of its input/output streams, and run it in the foreground or background as appropriate. Since you know that it is, in fact, a script you can also 'source' it.
--- rod.