Parallel shell scripts.

[nicky]

Creating 'status files' does seem a little easier, more flexable as well.
Thanks for the advice, i'll look in to it some more and try to solve it 
that way.

Thanks,

Nick



Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:00:34 +0100
> nicky <nicky at valuecare.nl> wrote:
>
>   
>> The whole idea is this. I have to extract two different databases to csv 
>> files. One takes about an 1 hour, the other 1.5 hours. The problem is my 
>> time window, which is 2 hours. So extracting one after the other is not 
>> an option. After both extractions are complete, it should load the csv 
>> files into a target database.
>>     
>
> Andrew has a point - I think you are going the *very* hard way around...
> an easier way , i think, may be :
> dump1.sh : handles extraction of first DB. Checks its own return status AND
> write to a tmp file flagging success or failure (i dont know, dump1.ok or
> dump1.bad... or different content which you can cat / grep for...)
>
> dump2.sh : same as dump1, with obvious differences.
>
>
>  loader.sh : loops, check for both .ok flags ,  wait if not there yet and
> handle as it should.
>
> Launch a term, run screen (if running on a remote server..this would be a
> must, i think...) , launch dump1.sh, then from another session, dump2.sh . Or
> use cron if you dont like screen.
> and , of course, launch loop.sh to monitor them both... 
>
> may have more components...but it's far easier to get it right, IMHO
>
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