compare today's date with date in a file

siog · #1 (**permalink**) 10-03-2006

Hi I am very new to scripting,
Can someone show me how to (in unix shell script) compare the system's date with a date in a file. The requirement is to somehow open this file (which will only have a date in it) and compare it with today's date. If they are equal execute a procedure below but if they are not the same, do nothing
sqlplus -s username/password @job.prc> job.log

Thank you so very much
Siog

anbu23 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2006

Can you show the date format in file ?

siog · #3 (**permalink**) 10-04-2006

Hi, the format is mmddyyyy. Thanks.

anbu23 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-04-2006

Code:

dt=`cat dtfile`
today_dt=`date +%m%d%Y`

if [ "$dt" = "$today_dt" ]
then
   #.. your code
fi

siog · #5 (**permalink**) 10-04-2006

Thank you so very much! I really appreciate your help. Take care.

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