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Old 03-04-2014
The most important thing you need to remember when writing a shell script (or any software) is that you need to know what that script is supposed to do. In trying to get a specification of what this script is supposed to do, you have now given us three conflicting sets of requirements.
  1. In one case the END?DATE and START?DATE variables have a space where the ? characters are; in two cases they have _ characters.
  2. In one case the format of the data in those variables in dd/mm/yyyyHH:MM:SS, in two cases the format is dd/mm/yyyy.
  3. In one case, the value assigned to the variable SEQUENCE is supposed to be incremented; in one it is not modified; and in the other, there is no mention of this variable.
  4. In two cases it is unclear whether one or both of the (START|END)[ _]DATE variables are supposed to be updated; in one case it is clear that both are to be updated.

When you can give us a clear English description of what your script is supposed to do, show us sample input (using CODE tags), and show us sample output (using CODE tags) that matches that description; we will have something we can work with. The volunteers who try to help answer issues raised in The UNIX and Linux Forums want to help you learn how to use the tools provided on these systems to do things you want to do. Trying to write software to meet a moving set of requirements is frustrating (and usually just a waste of time).
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