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I am using korn shell unix.

I have a script that I am working with to do a check for me using a text file.



#finds "Time" from the text file and cuts the second field from the #line

A= grep Time test.txt | cut -f2


# the "#Missing" is being pulled from the second field of the text #file

if [ "$A" = #Missing ]
then
echo "page me"
fi



My problem is that I am unable to get the 'echo "page me"' to echo back onto the screen. This tells me that the check isn't successful- or at least that is what I think it is telling me.

My if statement may be incorrect- I've tried '-eq', but no luck there either.

I'm also not certain if I can use grep to try and define a variable. I've even attempted to use awk. Everything works on the command line, by itself (like running the grep command).

Anyone have any ideas? I'm pretty new at Unix.

Thanks,

Chris

I'm sure there are 100 different ways of accomplishing this, but this worked for me:

#!/bin/ksh

A=`grep Time test.txt | cut -f2`

if [ $A = \#Missing ]
then
echo "page me"
fi