HELP USING WHILE...

[johngiggs]

I am attempting to make it so my script only runs Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM until 6:00 PM, but the test below doesn't seem to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#!/bin/sh -f

DAY=`date +%a`
TIME=`date +%H%M`

while [ $DAY = Mon -o Tue -o Wed -o Thu -o Fri ] && [ $TIME -gt 0700 -a $TIME -lt 1800 ] ;

do

......

Thanks,

John

 

[Chapter11]

The syntax of your test is probably very bad, and testing that many conditions is pretty ugly.

Does this run daemon-like, or is it started by cron?

 

[johngiggs]

It's not in cron. I just wanted to run it in the background with nohup.

Thanks,

John

 

[clonny2]

Need to add done after your commands

while [ condition ]
do
commands
done

 

[Ygor]

I guess you could use %u Weekday as a one-digit decimal number [1-7 (Monday-Sunday)].

DAY=`date +%u`
TIME=`date +%H%M`

while [ $DAY -lt 6 -a $TIME -gt 0700 -a $TIME -lt 1800 ]
do
......
done