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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare current time to timestamp on a file Post 302409428 by cillmor on Thursday 1st of April 2010 06:26:39 AM
Old 04-01-2010
Compare current time to timestamp on a file
I'm trying to compare 2 dates between current time and the timestamp on a file.
The date format is mmdd
Both return Apr 1 but when using if statement

Code:
line 11: Apr 1: command not found error is returned


Code:
#!/bin/sh

log="DateLog"

Current_Date=`date +%b%e`
Filepmdate=`ls -l /file.txt | awk '{print $6,$7}'`

printf "$Current_Date \n"
printf "$Filepmdate \n"

if ( "$Current_Date" = "$Filepmdate" ) ; then
	echo "Dates are the same" > /$log
 	exit 0
else
	echo "Dates are Not the same" > /$log
	exit 0
fi

any ideas ?

---------- Post updated at 11:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:22 AM ----------

ok saw my error should used square brackets [] instead of ()

Code:
log="DateLog"

Current_Date=`date +%b%e`
Filepmdate=`ls -l /message.txt | awk '{print $6,$7}'`

printf "$Current_Date \n"
printf "$Filepmdate \n"

if [ "$Current_Date" = "$Filepmdate" ] ; then
	echo "Dates are the same" > /$log
 	exit 0
else
	echo "Dates are Not the same" > /$log
	exit 0
fi

Last edited by pludi; 04-01-2010 at 07:39 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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NAME

       ds.log - Availability Suite data services log file

DESCRIPTION

       The  /var/adm/ds.log file contains the Availability Suite data services command log. The administration commands log activities to the file
       in the format:

	 date time product: message

       Note that when the size of the log file exceeds 10 Mbytes, ds.log is renamed  /var/adm/ds.log.bak  and a new /var/adm/ds.log file  is  cre-
       ated.

       The ds.log fields are:

       date

	   The	date format is mmm nn, where mmm  is  the local three-character abbreviation for the month and nn is the day of the month on which
	   the event occurred.

       time

	   The time of the event, in hh:mm:ss format.

       product

	   A product code that identifies which component of the data services produced the event. The code is separated  from	the  message  that
	   follows by a colon (:) and a space.

       message

	   A  message  that  can extend over  more  than  one  line describing the event that occurred. The second or following lines are not pre-
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