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OK found the problem. Problem was the ls command used in the command line was of a different format then the ls command used within the bash script. So when I compared the data at the command line I...

Yes but I would still like to know why this is not working as it should. The way I have it is it compares to strings in identical format but for some reason when I type out the ls command under the...

and ls -l file1.txt | awk '{print $6}' returns 2010-09-01
echo "The modified date of file is $Filecrtdate" returns Sep

when I change script to read
Filecrtdate=`ls -l file1.txt | awk '{print...

yes date is in that format which is why i modified the current date in same format so comparing same string. Now here is the interesting thing. When I type ls -l file1.txt | awk '{print $6}' into...

No logging into server with putty and using nano to open and edit script

I am not sure if you are asking for this :-
$ cat f1.sh
#!/bin/sh
Rundate=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
echo $Rundate
Filecrtdate=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
echo $Filecrtdate

if [ $Filecrtdate == $Rundate ]
then...

Sorry, yes that was actual correct in the code, just a typo when I entered in post. Any other ideas?

I have the date of the file passed into a variable also current date formatted same passed into a separate variable and compare the two with an if statement and statement always comes up false. Even...