1. Shell Programming and Scripting

how can i use awk or sed to do a conditional statement, so that HH:MM if MM not great than 30 , then MM=00 else MM=30 ie: 10:34 will display 10:30 10:29 will display 10:00 a=$(echo 10:34 | awk ......) Thanks in advance (10 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

can somebody help, what quote i should use in below statement or what wrong of it ? the 1st (*) is a char, the 2nd and 3rd (*) is a wildcard if ] && ] && ] ................^ .............^ then echo "ok" fi thanks in advance. (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Does Unix have a conditional statement like Java as follows: Condition ? Statement1 : Statement2 Thanks (8 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, The following code is to find if a list of numbers from one file are within the range in another file. awk -F, '\ BEGIN { while ((getline < "file2") > 0) file2=$3 } {for (col1 in file2) if ($0>=30 && $1<=45) print $0} ' FILE1 But where I have the number 30 and 45, I... (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm getting a "bad number" error from the following conditional if statement. I understand the results of the grep command are not being treated a an integer but am unsure of the correct syntax. Any help would be appreciated. if Thanks (2 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want to add a conditional statement to a user's .profile file. I have a certain number of users that log in and use the rksh (Restricted Korn Shell). When they log in, it starts a certain program and when they exit this program, the system logs them out. When they are in this program, they can... (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to create a shell script that will check for new files and or folders and if it exist then copy them to a different directory. Does anyone have a idea? if ; then echo "Copying files from the Upgrade Server" cp -Ruavp /home/upgrade/hex-code/*... (7 Replies)

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I need to implement something like this. 1) search for a file(say *.doc) from a path (say /home/user/temp) 2) if file found & if file size > 0 : yes --> file valid else : print file not valid. I am trying to implement something like this, but seems i am terribly wrong somewhere.. ... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I wanted to know if we can use conditional statements like if--else--fi inside an automated SFTP script session. (1 Reply)

10. Programming

Hi experts, I am doing an exercise which has the following requirements. Charlie will bite your finger exactly 50% of the time. First, write a function isBitten() that returns TRUE with 50% probability, and FALSE otherwise To generate a webpage that displays "Charlie bit your finger!" or... (1 Reply)