Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Team,

I am trying to change a date in linux with a tomcat user and it is failing due to some reason. the code so far is,

Code:

echo "pl. provide the date to change"
read userdate
if [ $userdate -eq "" ]; then
        echo "pl. provide the date to change"
        exit 1
fi

#/bin/date --date=$userdate
#/bin/date +%m-%d-%Y -s $userdate
sudo /bin/date +%Y%m%d -s $userdate

The output of this is,

[tomcat@xyz ~]$ sh changedate.sh
pl. provide the date to change
20140122
changedate.sh: line 3: [: : integer expression expected
20140122sh changedate.sh
pl. provide the date to change
20140122
changedate.sh: line 3: [: : integer expression expected
20140122

Appreciate your help. thanks.

-Siddhesh

-eq is for numeric tests not string comparisons use -z to test for blank strings:

Code:

if [ -z "$userdate" ]; then

or = for string comparison:

Code:

if [ "$userdate" = "" ]; then