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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple test driving me mad! Post 42224 by alarmcall on Friday 24th of October 2003 05:19:52 AM
Old 10-24-2003
Question Simple test driving me mad!

Hi all,

I have been writing a script to automate some work for myself and have come accross a problem. I cannot understand why it doesn't work, but then I am new to both Unix and Korn shell hacking! Here is the problem:

I want to interogate a file for a number and store that number in $tarVal. tarVal is then compared to another number and the appropriate action taken...

What should happen is this. When $success is zero and $tarVal is greater than 0.3 $n should be incremented by 3 and it should then leave the block - agreed? However, for some reason it doesn't! When tarVal has come in at 0.44 (for example) according to the program 0.44 is less than 0.3, so $success has 1 added to it and the newTarVal is set to tarVal (0.44)!!!Smilie

Here is the code:

<snip>

tarVal=$(grep 20000 ${truncfile}-${n}-${j}-output.txt | awk {'print $10'})

if [ $success -eq 0 ] && [ $tarVal -gt 0.3 ]; then
n=$((n + 3))
elif [ $success -eq 0 ] && [ $tarVal -le 0.3 ]; then
success=$((success + 1))
newTarVal=$tarVal
elif [ $success -gt 0 ] && [ $tarVal -le $newTarVal ]; then
success=$((success + 1))
newTarVal=$tarVal
else
success=$success
newTarVal=$newTarVal
fi

<snip>

Can ANYBODY enlighten me? I don't know whether I have got syntax wrong (although the script runs without error) or whether the problem lies in the use of the logical AND (&&) in some way? Please, please help as this has been foxing me for hours and hours now and I've tried everything I can think of.

Thanks in advance for any help offered!

alarmcall
 

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