Hello,

I've been stuck with this for a few days now , so I'm hoping someone out there might be kind enough to help me.

I need to do a "file exist" check with a variable in the file name. After that I need to do a line count on the file, and output its results to a txt file.

For simplicity/compliance reasons, I have simplified all my paths and file names. Also the txt file has already been created, hence the ">>" instead of ">"

Right now I'm getting a "bad substitute" error for the first line "if [ -f "/path/File_${CUR_DATE).rtf" ]; then" in the code below.



Code:

#!/bin/ksh
 
HOMEDIR= "/mypath"
YEST_DATE=$(TZ=EST+24 date +%Y%m%d)
CUR_DATE=$(date "+%Y%m%d")
 
if [ -f "/path/File_${CUR_DATE).rtf" ]; then
     echo "file found with today's date" >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
     echo " " >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
     echo "Records in file:" >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
     echo wc -l < "/path/File_${CUR_DATE)" >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
elif [ -f "/path/File_${YEST_DATE).rtf" ]; then
     echo "file found with yesterday's date" >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
     echo " " >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
     echo "Records in file:" >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
     echo wc -l < "/path/File_${YEST_DATE).rtf" >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
else
     echo "file not found" >> $HOMEDIR/file.txt
 
fi

See those brackets.. marked in Red..

can you execute your script with -x and post the output here

 #!/bin/ksh -x

Pamu and itkamaraj- IT WORKS!

I feel so silly that such a simple error has been driving me nuts. Thanks for helping a noob out guys :-)