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keefer
keefer

Reputation: 15

bash - executing multiple scripts from a script

I have a crontab entry that will run a 'worker' script hourly. Within the 'worker' script I have multiple paths to other scripts like so;

#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "project-worker"
echo "Script to run checks on all jobs!"
source /home/user/project/project-jobs/cleanuptest1/project-mon-cleanuptest1.sh
source /home/user/project/project-jobs/sedtest1/project-mon-sedtest1.sh
jobslot=empty
exit

My issue is it only seems to be running the first script (cleanuptest1.sh) and ignoring the rest. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong at all? I read to call other scripts from within a script I should use source but is where I'm going wrong, it can't be used for multiple instances?

Many thanks in adavance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (1)

xvan
xvan

Reputation: 4855

Source should only be used if you need to preserve the called script environment on the callee.

If that's not the case you can execute the subscripts in subshells.

#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "project-worker"
echo "Script to run checks on all jobs!"
bash /home/user/project/project-jobs/cleanuptest1/project-mon-cleanuptest1.sh
bash /home/user/project/project-jobs/sedtest1/project-mon-sedtest1.sh
jobslot=empty
exit

Upvotes: 3

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