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

[Justin Alcorn]

Someone put it in the Wiki!

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:14 PM, David F. Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
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
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
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