help with "if" statement for TIME

smintz · #1 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008

This should be incredibly simple, but can't get it to work.
All I want to do is pause a script between 11:00 am and noon.

I receive the following error:
time.sh[4]: 13:55:45: syntax error

script:
1 while true
2 do
3 TIME=$(date '+%H:%M:%S')
4 if [ $TIME -ge 11:00:00 ] -a [ $TIME -le 12:00:00 ]
5 then
6 echo "time between 11:00 and noon"
7 echo sleep time $TIME
8 sleep 3
9 else
10 echo "time all others"
11 fi
12 done

Autocross.US · #2 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008

Try removing the colons from your time variable and if statement:

Code:

TIME=$(date '+%H%M%S')
if [ $TIME -ge 110000 ] -a [ $TIME -le 120000 ]

smintz · #3 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008

Thank you! I could have sworn I tried it. But this time it worked

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