How to compare previous and current item in for loop in bash?


 
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Old 12-29-2016
Here is example to calculate diff between login and session time ... easy to modify ..
using ksh93
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
prev=""
name="someuser"

for logu in /tmp/$lognam/wtmp*
do
  last -f "$logu" -F "$name"
done  | while read line
do
 flds=($line)
        loginstart="${flds[4]} ${flds[5]} ${flds[6]} ${flds[7]}"
        loginend="${flds[10]} ${flds[11]} ${flds[12]} ${flds[13]}"
        [ "$loginstart" = "" ] && continue
        [ "$prev" = "" ] && prev="$loginstart" && continue
        epocnow=$(printf "%(%#)T" "$loginstart")
        epoclogout=$(printf "%(%#)T" "$loginend")
        epocprev=$(printf "%(%#)T" "$prev")
        ((logintime=epoclogout - epocnow))
        ((diff=epocprev-epocnow))
        ((h=diff/3600))
        ((s1=diff-3600*h))
        ((m=s1/60))
        ((s=s1-m*60 ))
        echo "$diff|$logintime|$prev|$loginstart|$h:$m:$s"
        prev="$loginstart"
done

 
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NAME
syslogout - modular centralized shell logout mechanism DESCRIPTION
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