dreport in script file

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Thu Sep 30 08:30:25 PDT 2004


Butch Ammon wrote:
[...]
> day=`date +%a`
> if [ "$day" -eq Mon ]
[...]

"-eq" is a numeric compare.  The Bourne shell will compare two non-numeric
values here as "true".

You want:

    if [ "$day" = Mon ]

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