[Remind-Fans] Using remind to run script daily if not weekend or holiday

[Gustav H Meyer]

Hi David,

Wow that was a quick response. Thanks.

David F. Skoll wrote:
> Gustav H Meyer wrote:
>> How can I use remind to act as a filter whereby it will check whether a 
>> day falls on a holiday or weekend and thus only run on a real working day?
> 
> # --- cut here and save as checkholiday.rem:
>         # Don't run on weekends
> 	IFTRIG Sat Sun
> 	    EXIT 1
>         ENDIF
> 
> 	# Pull in list of holidays
> 	INCLUDE list_of_holidays.rem
> 
> 	# Don't run on holidays
> 	IF isomitted(today())
> 	    EXIT 1
>         ENDIF
> 
> 	# Otherwise it's OK to run
>         EXIT 0
> # --- end of checkholiday.rem
> 
> Then in your shell script:
> 
> remind checkholiday.rem && run_time_consuming_task

It works, but I just want to make sure that I got it right. I've added 
the 12th of May as a Holiday to test:

---- BEGIN list_of_holidays.rem
; Holiday or other days on which you do not want to run the script
OMIT 12 May 2008
---- END list_of_holidays.rem

Is that correct?

I guess so because it works.

$ remind checkholiday.rem 9 May 2008 && echo RUN SCRIPT
RUN SCRIPT
$ remind checkholiday.rem 10 May 2008 && echo RUN SCRIPT
$ remind checkholiday.rem 11 May 2008 && echo RUN SCRIPT
$ remind checkholiday.rem 12 May 2008 && echo RUN SCRIPT
$ remind checkholiday.rem 13 May 2008 && echo RUN SCRIPT
RUN SCRIPT
$ remind checkholiday.rem 1 Jun 2008 && echo RUN SCRIPT
$

Fantastic. Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Gustav