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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting If echo statement return false Post 302956239 by nugent on Monday 28th of September 2015 09:50:28 AM
Old 09-28-2015
If echo statement return false
I have this code that sometimes return a false value and the code inside the if statement gets executed and error out. Any idea why? thanks.

So I set a debug and see what the value for $ScriptElapsedTime

Here is the value I got ScriptElapsedTime='03:20'. Base on this value the if statement shouldn't even execute.
Code:
ScriptElapsedTime=`ps -p $$ -o etime | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'`

if echo "$ScriptElapsedTime" | grep ":" | grep -q "\-"
then
  mailout.sh NAME "$oradb - ScriptElapsedTime debug" "ScriptElapsedTime='$ScriptElapsedTime'"
  procdays=`echo "$ScriptElapsedTime" | awk -F- '{print $1}'`
  ScriptElapsedTime=`echo "$ScriptElapsedTime" | awk -F- '{print $2}'`
  let TotProcMin=$TotProcMin+$procdays*1440
fi

let: :: invalid character in expression - TotProcMin=0+3:20*1440

Last edited by Franklin52; 09-28-2015 at 10:58 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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