Script not to run on Saturday and Sunday

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

Hi everyone,
I want to put on the beginning on a script a "if - then" cicle that check if the day is Saturday or Sunday. If it's true the stop the script.
Can you help me please?

Regards...
PSS

[Ramkumar Devanathan]

if [[ `date +%A` = 'Sunday' || `date +%A` = 'Saturday' ]]; then
echo "It is a holiday... laze around..."
exit 1
fi

HTH.

- ramd.

[T G Manikandan]

m=`date|awk -F " " '{print $1}'`
if [ $m = "Wed" -o $m = "Fri" ]
then
echo holiday
else
echo working
fi

[T G Manikandan]

This should be Sat and Sun in the script above


if [ $m = "Sat" -o $m = "Sun" ]

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi,
Why not use cron (crontab):

0 0 * * 1,2,3,4,5

[John Poff]

Hi,

Here is a snippet of code that I use in a script which only ejects a DDS tape during the weekday after a tar backup:

#
# Eject the DDS tapes on weekdays
#
let TODAY=$(date +%u)
if ((TODAY < 6))
then
mt offl
fi


JP

[John Meissner]

day=$(date +%A)
if [ $date = Saturday ] || [ $date = Sunday ]
then
exit 1
fi
#rest of your script

[Ramkumar Devanathan]

John

that should be $day rather than $date, eh!

In any case, is PSS looking here at all????

- ramd.

[John Meissner]

But I also thing that this is the messy way to do it.... I agree with Leif that this should be scheduled with Cron

[John Meissner]

Ramkumar - thanks.... typ-o's .... good thing I didn't type rm :)

[Marco Santerre]

I also agree wholeheartily that you should do this via cron.

[Dario_1]

Hi!

Just like Leif mentioned, I will use crontab.

Regards,

DR