Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am trying to update a script so that it checks the current time, if the current time is 12am then I want the script to end and go no further. I have used the exit command but it doesn't seem to work. The section of script below is within another loop. I want the script to not just exit the if statement and go to the surrounding FOR loop, but finish running till the script is called again. What am i doing wrong? This is what i added.

Code:

CURRENT_TIME=$(date +%k)
if [$CURRENT_TIME -eq 0]; then
        exit 0
fi

Moderator's Comments:

Use code tags please, thanks.

Code:

 
date +%k
date: bad format character - k

Try debugging, do a print inside that if condition by which you can understand whether the condition is met or not..

Some versions of Linux allow "date +%k". It is the hour of the day with no leading zeros (0-23).

The test contains syntax issues. There should be a space character after the "[" and a space character before the "]"

Code:

CURRENT_TIME=$(date +%k)
if [ $CURRENT_TIME -eq 0 ]; then
        exit 0
fi

Thanks methyl, that has worked. Was the syntax as you said.