I am using korn shell unix.

I have a script that I am working with to do a check for me using a text file.



#finds "Time" from the text file and cuts the second field from the #line

A= grep Time test.txt | cut -f2


# the "#Missing" is being pulled from the second field of the text #file

if [ "$A" = #Missing ]
then
echo "page me"
fi



My problem is that I am unable to get the 'echo "page me"' to echo back onto the screen. This tells me that the check isn't successful- or at least that is what I think it is telling me.

My if statement may be incorrect- I've tried '-eq', but no luck there either.

I'm also not certain if I can use grep to try and define a variable. I've even attempted to use awk. Everything works on the command line, by itself (like running the grep command).

Anyone have any ideas? I'm pretty new at Unix.

Thanks,

Chris