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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash to convert to m-d-yyyy Post 302965989 by cmccabe on Friday 5th of February 2016 04:07:37 PM
Old 02-05-2016
If the file.txt has data in it then a folder with todays date (m-d-y) is created in the path listed but the syntax appears wrong. Thank you Smilie.

Code:
printf " Welcome to NGS analysis, checking for new files and creating a directory "

# verify new files
wget -q --user=xxxx --password=xxx --xxxxx \
https://www.xxxx.com/file
now=$(date +"%m_%d_%Y")
        mkdir /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/$now &&
else
    echo " no new files to analyze, goodbye "
    exit 1
fi

Code:
line 12: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
/home/cmccabe/Desktop/medical_exome.sh: line 12: `else'

---------- Post updated at 03:07 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:53 PM ----------

I was able to solve this by using:
Code:
DATE=`date +%-m-%-d-%Y`
        mkdir /home/cmccabe/Desktop/NGS/API/$DATE

Thank you Smilie.

Last edited by cmccabe; 02-05-2016 at 05:07 PM.. Reason: added edit
 

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