Unix Shell - Re: can anyone see the error in this script please I am BASHing my

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Re: can anyone see the error in this script please I am BASHing my

Janis Papanagnou

2006-03-11, 5:51 pm

Mike wrote:
> can anyone see the error in this script please I am BASHing my head LOL
>
>
> while read line
> do # For as many lines as the input file has...
> $tmp=${line:0:1}
> if [$tmp -ne $comma]; # if tmp is not a , then
> then
> $getdate=${line:0:9}
> $theday=`date +%A -d $getdate`
> $theLine=$theday "-" $thecount "," ${line:10:20}
> else
> $theLine=$line
> fi
> echo $theLine >> testoutput.txt
> done < testtides.csv
> exit
>

Assign to var and not to $var.

tmp=${line:0:1}
getdate=${line:0:9}
theday=`date +%A -d $getdate`
theLine=$line

etc.

Janis