Shell Programming and Scripting

Below is my shell script. I am trying to execute two different BTEQ scripts depending on the day of the week. So on a saturday I will execute a certain BTEQ script and on other weekdays I will run the other script.

#!/bin/ksh
dt=`date +"%a"`
if [$dt -eq "Sat"] then
bteq > final_output <<- EOF
.run FILE=/home/i276764/tdata_logon.txt
.run file=/home/i276764/insert_sql_sat.txt
else
bteq > final_output <<- EOF
.run FILE=/home/i276764/tdata_logon.txt
.run file=/home/i276764/insert_sql_wkday.txt
fi
exit 0


my script gave errors like unexpected else and then unmatched < operator.

I would appreciate help on this.

Thanks in advance.

You try to compare string as integer, see UNIX man pages : test ()

Code:

dt=`date +"%a"`
if [[ $dt = "Sat" ]]; then

I took your advise and used the script below(made it simpler to see if it worked) and still get the error else statement unexpected... :-(

#!/bin/ksh

dt=`date +"%a"`

if [[$dt -eq "Sat"];] then echo "Saturday"
else echo "Other"
fi

use a ";" between "]]" and "then" and space out [[ ]] from condition
instead of eq use =