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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [Solved] Bash test 2 variables to see if ones greater by n Post 302607065 by jaysunn on Tuesday 13th of March 2012 01:07:01 PM
Old 03-13-2012
[Solved] Bash test 2 variables to see if ones greater by n
Experts,
I have a bash shell script that generates 2 variables that have the current minute and a minute from a log file. Can someone please show me the best way to test if the minutes stray by 5. So basically if:
This is ok:
Code:
Last Fitting Min
=============
02
Current Minute
=============
02

This is bad:
Code:
Last Fitting Min
=============
02
Current Minute
=============
07

I know how to test if the values are greater than each other. However I am unsure how to check if the value is greater by 5.

I hope I explained this well enough.
Here are the system details.

Code:
Kernel: 2.6.18-194.el5
GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 

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