Collect *.cron in the directory, and then APPEND to the original crontab

crontab.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# @(#) crontab.sh  Time-stamp: <Julian Qian 2015-05-15 18:14:28>
# Copyright 2015 Julian Qian
# Author: Julian Qian <[email protected]>
# Version: $Id: crontab.sh,v 0.1 2015-05-14 10:53:03 jqian Exp $
#

# Collect *.cron in the directory, and then APPEND to the original crontab

# TODO fix potential confliction when more than one crontab.sh instances are running concurrently.

THIS_PATH=$(readlink -f $0)
cd $(dirname $THIS_PATH)

start_flag="###{{{ AUTO GENERATED BY ${THIS_PATH}, DONOT DELETE THIS LINE!"
end_flag="###}}} AUTO GENERATED BY ${THIS_PATH}, DONOT DELETE THIS LINE!"

REPO_PATH=$(dirname $(dirname $THIS_PATH))

task_file=$(mktemp)

echo $start_flag > $task_file

datetime=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%m:%S")
echo "### Below tasks are generated at $datetime automatically." >> $task_file
echo "### If you want to maintain your own cron tasks, please add them" >> $task_file
echo "### ABOVE or AFTER this section." >> $task_file
echo "###" >> $task_file

for cron in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.cron" -type f | sort); do
    echo "

################ $cron ################
" >> $task_file
    sed "s!\$REPO_PATH!$REPO_PATH!g" $cron >> $task_file
done
echo "
" >> $task_file
echo $end_flag >> $task_file

# back original crontab
bak_file=$(mktemp)
is_interal=no
crontab -l | while read line;
do
    if [[ $line == $start_flag ]];
    then
        is_interal=yes
    fi
    if [[ $is_interal == no ]];
    then
        echo "$line" >> $bak_file
    fi
    if [[ $line == $end_flag ]];
    then
        is_interal=no
    fi
done

cron_file=$(mktemp)
cat $bak_file > $cron_file
cat $task_file >> $cron_file
cat $cron_file > crontab.txt
crontab $cron_file
rm $task_file $bak_file $cron_file