thoughts for cron jobs and unix script utilities

gistfile1.txt

# useful for ignoring certain codes (ie rsync 24) when running under set -e
#
#   runIgnoringExitCodes 1,2,3 cmd foo bar
#
# be sure to escape the command as needed
#
#   runIgnoringExitCodes 1,2,3 "cmd foo bar | grep baz"
#
function runIgnoringExitCodes {
    local ignore_codes=(${1//,/ })
    shift
    local cmd=$*
    # echo "Ignoring ${ignore_codes[@]} while running $cmd"
    eval ${cmd} || returnStatus=$? && true
    local e
    for e in $ignore_codes; do
        #echo "testing return against allowed exit status $e"
        [[ "${returnStatus}" == "${e}" ]] && return 0
    done
    #echo "NOT OK TO IGNORE"
    return $returnStatus
}


# not sure this works yet
function collectOutput {
    local logfile
    logfile=$1
    [[ -z $logfile ]] && echo "No logfile specified" && return 1
    > $logfile exec 2>&1
    date
}