11-28-2001
time arithmetic
Can anyone help please. I am writing a kourne shell script and I am unsure how to do the following:
I have extracted a time string from a logfile, and I have another time string I want to compare it to to see if it's later than the time I'm comparing with.
i.e. expectedSLA="23:00:00", actualDeliveryTime="22:40:00"
I try to do the following:
missedSLA="N"
if [ $actualDeliveryTime > $expectedSLA ]
then
missedSLA="Y"
fi
This always sets missedSLA to "Y". Isn't it supposed to compare using the decimal values of the string? How can I get the above process to work? What can I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
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