Bash Script to run on Modays

akeenabawa · 07-25-2008, 11:23 AM

Hi, new to Linux. Trying to write a bash script that recognizes if it's Monday or not.
If [ Mon ]
then
do something
I have this:
If [ $(date) ('+%a'=Mon) ]
then
but I get these errors:
line 11: syntax error near unexpected token `('
line 11: `If [ $(date) ('%a'=Mon) ] '
Thanks

colucix · 07-25-2008, 11:33 AM

Linux is case sensitive. It looks like you used an upper-case "If" instead of the correct "if" (all lower-case). Furthermore the syntax is not correct. It should be

Code:

if [ $(date +%a) = Mon ]
then

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xkero · 07-25-2008, 01:29 PM

If this script has to be run every monday or on a predictable schedule I'd suggest using cron to run it (http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html how-to).

akeenabawa · 07-25-2008, 02:27 PM

Thank you very much for the help, it works great.