Shell Programming and Scripting

Well the above I took from my dfcap.txt file had:

Used
2082764

And if this will be reading through, but since the numbers won't always be the same (because files get added, and the total user "Used Storage" changes, wouldn't this method only work if it I had a static number to use?

Right now I have

Code:

while read $CAP
do
if ( $CAP -lt [what goes here for my example] ) then
echo cat dfcap.txt
else
echo "No user usage exceeds this number"
fi
done

---------- Post updated at 07:56 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:19 PM ----------

Ok I am this far, now i'm stuck again

Code:

df -k /home/* | grep -v "FileSystem" | awk '{print $3, $4, $1}' > dfcap.txt

echo -n "Enter a capacity in Kilobytes: "
read cap

space=`cat dfcap.txt | awk '{print $1}'`

for i in $space
do
if ( test $cap -gt $space ) then
echo "working"
else
echo "broken"
fi
done

sleep 7

right now when I enter a number I get

./option.sh: line 12: test: used: integer expression expected
brokeeen

./option.sh: line 12: test: used: integer expression expected
brokeeen

(yes, runs it twice). Any suggestions?

if [[ $cap -gt $space ]]; then

i made that change, now I am getting 2082772: syntax error in expressions (error token is "2082772")
brokeeen

the number 2082772 is in the text file which I am trying to use for my if statement. The broken and working parts are just for testing. Now I need to figure out this error.

It reads from the file, which you dumped current numbers into. Where would it magically get old numbers?

---------- Post updated at 02:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:11 PM ----------

Please post your entire script as you have it now. Substitutions and half-fixes have been thrown all over the place, who knows what it actually looks like by now.

Did you copy paste the suggested line or did you add some quote around the variables ?