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Old 09-10-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
Take a look at the red highlighted. If your shell supports it you may do
Code:
if [[ variable -lt 800 ]]

or
Code:
if (( variable < 800 ))


However you have been mentioning all along:
Thus, the proper comparison should be:
Code:
if [ "$variable" -gt 800 ]

Hi!

Was using the -lt parameter for testing purposes but heres what i ended up with, seems to work great! THanks for your help

Code:
fname=$(ls -Art | tail -n 1)
echo $fname
value=$(tac $fname | grep -m1 "Total number of clients:")
echo $value
variable=${value##* }
echo $variable
if [ $variable -gt 800 ]; then
        echo "" | mail -s "WARNING: vpsi1ftc Configuration Server Connection Count: $variable" email@company.com
fi

Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-10-2015 at 02:38 AM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags, again.
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