Need help with a simple if then else statement

[Ati2ude]

The follwoing code:
#Check if any files are in the error DB

lines=`hcidbdump -e | wc -l`;
echo $lines;
today=`date +%Y%m%d`;
echo $today;

if (( $lines != 8 ))
then
`hcidbdump -e -L >> $today.txt`;
fi


gives me the follwoing error:

db_check.ksh[13]: ^M: not found
db_check.ksh[15]: ^M: not found
db_check.ksh[21]: ^M: not found
db_check.ksh[23]: ^M: not found
db_check.ksh[24]: ^M: not found
10
db_check.ksh[25]: ^M: not found
db_check.ksh[26]: ^M: not found
20040908
db_check.ksh[27]: ^M: not found
db_check.ksh[28]: ^M: not found
db_check.ksh[28]: syntax error at line 29 : `if' unmatched

I am not sure where my syntax error is. I have tried several ways of doing this and I can't seem to make it work. TIA for any pointers.

Ati2ude

 

[vgersh99]

1.Make sure that you specify a shell interpreter with you script - that's the first line in the script.

2. I don't think you need ['] for your "dump" call

#!/bin/ksh
#Check if any files are in the error DB
    
    lines=`hcidbdump -e | wc -l`;
    echo $lines;
    today=`date +%Y%m%d`;
    echo $today;
 
if (( $lines != 8 ))
then
    hcidbdump -e -L >> $today.txt;
fi

vlad
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[Ati2ude]

I just solved it. Thanks for the quick reply. I am writing the script using Komodo and uploading it via ftp. My ftp client was uploading as Binary not ascii.

Crackhead move on my part.

Ati2ude