Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi forumers,

How is it going. Ok i need some advice on the following problem.

I have 2 files to read and compare data.FileA and FileB. FileA will return either status 1 or 0. FileB on the other hand is trickier and has the following details:-
Count DeviceID CurrentStatus Date Time
1 P1 Ok Today Present
2 P2 Fail Yesterday 12:00

So here is how I intend to read and compare both files:-

Es=”FileA”
Tmp= “FileB”

If [$es == 0] then read $tmp and check for each device status, if device status == “ok” then;
Print“ Device Ok”
Elif device status =! “Ok” then;
Print” Device Fail”
Elif [$es == 1] then then read $tmp and check for each device status, if device status ==”ok” then
Print“ Device Ok”
Elif device status =! “Ok” then;
Print” Device Fail”

How do I convert this to ksh script. Your prompt response is most appreciated. Thank you.

what is the difference between status 1 and 0?

Status 1 == got change and Status 0 == no change

Whether the content of $Es is 1 or 0 does not matter, since it results in the same checking of the device status. In other words:

Code:

$ awk 'NR>1{print "Device",$3}' Tmp
Device Ok
Device Fail

Could you please elaborate what do you mean by

Code:

FileA will return either status 1 or 0

Is it the return code....
Where is this value "0" or "1" stored for us to do a compare.

Code:

Es=”FileA”

will just have FileA stored to Es... the comparision later will fail...

Could you please give the above details required...

I presume you mean something like this?

Code:

read check < "$Es"
if [ $check -eq 1 ]; then
  while read count deviceid cs rest
  do
    echo "Device $cs"
  done < "$Tmp"
fi

@prakash1111, is this a puzzle?

Please elaborate your question clearly.