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Old 09-15-2010
Dates not comparing correct even the same format
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 though I verified the dates. Any help would be awesome.

Code:
Filecrtdate=`ls -l $i | awk '{print $6}'`    # declaring variable of file create date
Rundate=`date +%Y-%m-%d`    # Declaring todays date variable in format matching Filecrtdate                                      

if [ $Filecrtdate = $Rundate ]
      then echo "File created today"
      else echo "File not created today"
fi

Last edited by coderanger; 09-15-2010 at 01:22 PM..
# 2  
Old 09-15-2010
There must be a space between the square brackets and the statement:
Code:
[ $Filecrtdate = $Rundate ]
 ^                       ^

# 3  
Old 09-15-2010
Sorry, yes that was actual correct in the code, just a typo when I entered in post. Any other ideas?
# 4  
Old 09-15-2010
I am not sure if you are asking for this :-
Code:
$ cat f1.sh
#!/bin/sh
Rundate=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
echo $Rundate
Filecrtdate=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
echo $Filecrtdate

if [ $Filecrtdate == $Rundate ]
then
  echo "successful"
else
  echo "unsuccessful"
fi

$ sh f1.sh
2010-09-15
2010-09-15
successful

You need to add double ==
# 5  
Old 09-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by coderanger
Sorry, yes that was actual correct in the code, just a typo when I entered in post. Any other ideas?
Your code works fine for me.
# 6  
Old 09-15-2010
Added the double == still same response. Getting the false. Does it matter that this is BASH???
Quote:
Originally Posted by scripter12
I am not sure if you are asking for this :-
Code:
$ cat f1.sh
#!/bin/sh
Rundate=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
echo $Rundate
Filecrtdate=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
echo $Filecrtdate

if [ $Filecrtdate == $Rundate ]
then
  echo "successful"
else
  echo "unsuccessful"
fi

$ sh f1.sh
2010-09-15
2010-09-15
successful

You need to add double ==
# 7  
Old 09-15-2010
Very strange.... did you use a windows editor?
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