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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with if statement, cannot get to right directory Post 302993456 by Don Cragun on Thursday 9th of March 2017 10:05:41 PM

03-09-2017

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Quote:

Originally Posted by digioleg54

I just explained you:
I have three if statement with and condition:

Code:

 if [ -d "${COOLDIR}/cool_${Today}/daily" ] && [ "${CASENAME}" = "D" ]
 then
       echo "Daily dir"
 fi
 if [ -d "${COOLDIR}/cool_${Today}/daily" ] && [ "${CASENAME}" = "W" ]
 then
      echo "weekly dir"
 fi
 if [ -d "${COOLDIR}/cool_${Today}/daily" ] && [ "${CASENAME}" = "M" ]
 then
      echo "monthly dir"
 fi

It is brief. It doesn't matter, what it does inside.
Everything I want,

Code:

 if CASENAme = "W", print weekly dir
 But it prints daily dir

---------- Post updated at 05:19 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:10 PM ----------

The script inside each if statement has 1000 lines, shows no errors. It just goes to incorrect if, even directory doesn't exist and I supply CASENAME "W", it goes under first IF

You can tell us the code doesn't matter all you want to. But we don't believe you. All three of your if statements above test whether or not the daily directory is there. Earlier posts had your three if statements testing different directories (but, usually not testing three different directories). The code above will print no more than one of Daily dir, weekly dir, or monthly dir. It will NEVER print daily dir (with a lower case leading d).

And there is a HUGE difference between CASENAme, $CASENAme, $CASENAME, $CaseName, and any other differences in upper and lower case letters in strings and (when there is a leading $, variable names).

Every time you give us an excerpt of your code, little details change. Those little details greatly affects the way your code works, and every typo greatly affects our ability to guess at what is wrong.

I would have to assume that one or more of the typos that we see in the excerpts you have posted here are indicative of mistakes in your thousands of lines of code and that one or more of those mistakes is what is causing your problem. A missing $ when you intended to perform a variable expansion; a misspelled variable name; using daily, or weekly, or monthly when you intended to use one of the others; et cetera can all cause the problems you have described and are consistent with discrepancies between what you say is code that you are running and output that you say is being produced by that code.

It has been suggested several times that you trace your code while it is running with set -x (which is a great idea). If you would do that and show us (accurately) the code you are running and the output produced (accurately), we might be able to help you.

With the inconsistencies between the code segments you have shown us and the output you say those code segments produce, I don't see much hope of anyone being able to diagnose your problem. I wish you luck, but I don't see any way that I can help you further on this topic.

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