Hello There!
I am trying to write this SIMPLE script in Bourne Shell but I keep on getting syntax errors. Can you see what I am doing wrong? I've done this before but I don't see the difference. I am simply trying to take the day of the week from our system and when the teachers sign on I want them to see the message of the day, when they exe "Schedule" (the name of this script).

#!/bin/sh
case $day in

 Mon) echo '1st grade please meet in front office conference rm at 2 pm.';;
 Tue) echo 'No school for students';;
 Wed) echo 'Kindegarten, Jane will meet you in Saban's room.';;
 Thu) echo 'Short Faculty meeting in Media Center.';;

 Fri) echo 'Please remind parents to sign in at front office!';;
 Sat) echo 'If you are on VPDN, please be sure to logout';;
 Sun) echo 'Why are you working?, Its Sunday!';;
#
#
esac

Are you sure you use the words 'Mon' 'Tues' etc and not numbers that represent the day of the week?

1) echo '1st grade ...
2) echo 'No school ...
3) echo 'Kindergarten ...
...
...

Thanks for your help. I did change the days to numbers Sunday being one since that is the day our system starts. It did get rid of the syntax error BUT now when I run the script....nothing happens. Any additional ideas. My script now looks like this:

case $day in
 1) echo 'why are you working';;
 2) echo 'comment 2';;
 3) echo 'comment 3.';;
 4) echo 'comment 4/reminder.';;
 5) echo 'comment6.';;
 6) echo 'meetings?';;
 7) echo 'vpdn reminders';;
esac

Oh wait, $day is the day of the month, which means it'd be equal to 23 today... you want to use the variable $dayweek, where 0 represents Sunday, 1 is Monday, and so on.

# SHELL VARIABLES:
# ----------------
#
# YEAR    :  Year of the session to be processed (2 digit)
# DAYYEAR :  Julian day of the year
# DAY     :  Day of the Month
# MONTH   :  Month, 1=JAN, 12=DEC
# DAYWEEK :  Day of the week, 0=SUN, 6=SAT

Thank you for the link oombera. I do apprecite your help. I changed to dayweek and renumbered but I amstill not getting an outcome. I will do some research on the website you provided.

Thanks

I don't understand why you guys think that variables like WEEKDAY are set automatically. Even if that is true, $WEEKDAY and $weekday are two different variables.

Do something like this:
echo WEEKDAY = $WEEKDAY
to see if WEEKDAY is really set automatically in your environment. But I'm betting that it is just empty.

If you want to set a variable to the day of the week, do something like this:
weekday=`date +%u`

oops lol - magic variables that just know what you'd like them to contain and then set themselves

looks like s93366 got it right in the other thread.