Shell Scripting Help

Elguapo · 09-07-2006, 06:34 AM

I have setup a cron job that excecutes a shell script that I am using to collect RETS data on a 6 hour basis. With in side my shell script, I have some very simple things setup. SInce I am new to shell scripting, I am looking for a little bit of help.

Here is my shell script. Basically, I have four needs from this script.

1. Remove all .txt files from RETS collection directory
2. Collect RETS data (the script below does this correctly
3. After the script is done running the shell script orc.sh, I need it to rename the collected files to <name>.xml
4. Run a coldfusion script that I have, via a url.

Can someone point me in the right direction as to where I can information so I can accomplish these needs.

#!/bin/sh
#!/bin/bash

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_08
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export JAVA_HOME PATH

/usr/local/orc-0.7.15/bin/orc.sh ARMLS

unSpawn · 09-07-2006, 07:03 AM

Maybe something like:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# (You only need one shebang line)
# Comment out the line below after testing
set -xe
#1. Remove all .txt files from RETS collection directory
# Change "/RETS/collection/directory" placeholder to actual directory name with full path
find /RETS/collection/directory -type f -iname "*.txt"|xargs -iF rm 'F'
#
# 2. Collect RETS data (the script below does this correctly)
# Change "/path/to/script.sh" placeholder to actual script name with full path
/path/to/script.sh
# 3. After the script is done running the shell script orc.sh, I need it to rename the collected files to <name>.xml
# Change "/path/to/orc.sh" placeholder to actual script name with full path
/path/to/orc.sh
# 4. Run a coldfusion script that I have, via a url.
for cmd in curl links lynx; do
cmd=$(which $cmd 2>/dev/null)
[ -n "$cmd" ] && break; done
uri="proto://doma.in/script.cf"
${cmd:=echo} "${uri}"
# Always exit script properly:
exit 0

Some Bash scripting guides, you'll prolly want the first two:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginne...tml/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/