Bash time of day processing

keith.brown · 05-18-2007, 07:59 PM

I need to have a script act depending upon the time of day in response to a real time event. Since this is real time, CRON would not work here.

Here is some psuedo code where I need to replace what is between the [ ] of the 'if' statement.

if [ (current time is between 8:00AM and 5:00PM) ]
then echo "STATEMENT PROCESSED"
else echo "STATEMENT NOT PROCESSED"
fi

# or

if [ (current day is Monday thru Friday) ]
then echo "STATEMENT PROCESSED"
else echo "STATEMENT NOT PROCESSED"
fi

Thanks

stress_junkie · 05-18-2007, 08:06 PM

This is an extremely simple problem. It sounds like homework to me.