I'm writing a shellscript that monitors the price of a watch. If the prices changes, it should email me. The body of the email will show the old price and the new price. However when I compare the two awk variables(oldprice and newprice) it always says they're not the same. The shellscript goes out and retrieves the web page source code, searches it for the price, once found it stores that price in the variable newprice. I then attempt to compare it to the old price, which comes from a file and is stored in the variable oldprice, but have problems there. I don't know if awk stores it as a string or as a float variable. I am also a little unsure about how to go about mailing myself when they are not the same. I'll appreciate any help you can give me.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
wget -qO- http://cs.actx.edu/~craddock/unix2/lab11 | awk -v oldprice=`cat pricefile` '
/<b class="price">/ {
getline
newprice = $0
if (oldprice ~ newprice) {
print "The price is the same"
}
else{
print "The price is not the same"
system ("mail -s"The price has changed" username")
print newprice > "pricefile"
}
}'
I have searched and found a few threads that have dealt with this, but the examples I've tried haven't seemed to help.
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Script
#!/bin/sh
hardware=PC
os=WindowsNET
for i in `cat newservers`
do
x=`sudo /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpplclients |grep $i |head -40 |grep $i|awk '{print $3;exit}'`
if
then
echo "$i is already added"
else
echo "Need to add"
fi
done
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Hi.
I have three arrays.
@a=('AB','CD','EF');
@b=('AB,'DG',HK');
@c=('DD','TT','MM');
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im trying to compare ipaddresses. i loop through an array to see if the ip is already is in the array and if it is it should set a flag and then i wont add it to the array. but its just adding all the ipaddresses to the array
if ]
then
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Hi,
I am trying to sort and display the below(like) input using awk command:
Input:
------
0;A
4;A
5;A
33;A
45;A
0;B
4;B
5;B
33;B
45;B
Output (desired): (5 Replies)
Hi!
I've come up with a ksh-script that produces one or more lists of hosts.
At the and of the script, I would like to print only those hosts that exists in all the lists.
Ex.
HOSTS="host1 host2 host3 host11"
HOSTS="host1 host2 host4"
HOSTS="host2 host11"
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Hi,
I am a noob at shell scripting.
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now I have 16 variables with me
for database 1 :
$A
$B
$C
$D
$E
$F
$G... (3 Replies)
I have very abstract need of "comparing two variables" and take subsequent actions.
please refer to image below
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Is there a way to compare variables in a 'awk'?
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I have a script like this. Just couldn't get the comparison part work. Any thought? thanks,
#!/usr/bin/ksh -x
STEP=`echo $(basename $0 .ksh) | tr "" ""`
log=/skip.log
while read LINE
do
if
then
echo `date`: STEP $STEP skipped by user >> $log
exit 0
fi
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Discussion started by: ghostmic
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