Shell Programming and Scripting

Thats great this works thanks for the help but still not sure why it didnt work in my for loop. Anyways thanks so much for the help

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Thanks to the qucik help on the group. I could do much of my coding from the pointers given. I have another question

If I want to just separate the parts coming in feild F_3 i.e. say F_3 = 'SYCPRP2_yyyyMMdd_RISK.CSV, SYCPRP2_yyyyMMdd_PCA.CSV, RMMPRP2_yyyyMMdd_ORIGINAL_Details.CSV'

I mean I want to extarct whatever is coming before the comma and pass it as parameters how do I go about it.

I tried using cut but that didnt help much as number of chars coming before comma may vary. Any quick help would be highly appreciated

Code:

F_3_1=$( echo $F_3 | awk -F ',' '{ print $1 }' )

Hi

I have added a if loop to the script viz

Code:

if [`echo $F_4` -eq 3]
then
{
echo "Two FW Jobs"
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} 
else 
{
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} 
fi

but this is not working it gives the message ./Automation_2.sh[29]: [3: not found
when I run this. Could you please help.

In the line

Code:

if [`echo $F_4` -eq 3]

You need to put at least one whitespace on each side of each of the square brackets, otherwise it won't be interpreted as the 'test' instruction.

I will take care of these instrucitons going forward. BTW thanks it worked now after adding white spaces

You don't need to use echo in your if statement :

Code:

if [ $F_4 -eq 3 ]

Jean-Pierre.

Something I've been wondering for months:
Where does this construct come from?

I've never seen it in a commercial script and never seen it in a book or manual. It does however crop up at least twice a week on this board.