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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to compare two strings Post 302226959 by Niroj on Wednesday 20th of August 2008 08:48:05 AM
Old 08-20-2008
Bug Script to compare two times (in date formats)

Since u r comparing two string use '$var' .
Agn in ur prog u used 2 str to comp which gv the wrong result
There r many ways 2 solve this ..I hv written as given below..
Plz chk...Smilie

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logdate1=`date -u '+%Y.%m.%d %T'`
sleep 5
logdate2=`date -u '+%Y.%m.%d %T'`


d1=`echo $logdate1 | tr '.' ':' | tr ':' ' ' `
d2=`echo $logdate2 | tr '.' ':' | tr ':' ' ' `
dt1=''
dt2=''
for d in $d1
do
dt1=$dt1$d
done

for d in $d2
do
dt2=$dt2$d
done

if [ ` expr $dt1 ` -ge ` expr $dt2 ` ];then
echo "logdate1=$logdate1 is greater"
else
echo "logdate2=$logdate2 is greater"
fi

Last edited by Niroj; 08-20-2008 at 09:53 AM..
 

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NAME
insanity-compare - program to compare two test results in database SYNOPSIS
insanity-compare {testrundbfile} {testrunid} {testrunid} DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the insanity-compare command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. insanity-compare is a program that can compare two test results by their testrunid. SEE ALSO
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