仅在crontab中的脚本等于或超过一个值时才执行

Question

I currently have a script in crontab for rsync (and some other small stuff). Right now the script is executed every 5 minutes. I modified the script to look for a specific line from the rsync part (example from my machine, not the actual code):

#!/bin/bash

Number=`/usr/bin/rsync -n --stats -avz -e ssh 1/ root@127.0.0.1 | grep "Number of regular files transferred" | cut -d':' -f 2 | tr -d 040\054\012`
echo $Number

Let's say the number is 10. If the number is 10 or below I want the script executed through the crontab. But if the number is bigger I want to be executed ONLY manually.

Any ides?

Answer 1

Maybe you can use an argument to execute it manually, for example:

if [[ $Number -le 10 || $1 == true ]];then
    echo "executing script..."
fi

This will execute if $Number is less or equal to 10 or if you execute it with true as the first positional argument, so if $Number is greater than 10 it won't execute in your crontab and you can execute your script manually with ./your_script true .