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

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