[m5fromns]

I am curious to know if it is possible to create a simple shell script with an if then statement based on the day of the week. This is what I created and it doesn't seem to work. I am a complete newbie to shell scripting so bare with me. This is what I did. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

#!/bin/bash

TODAY=$(date +%A)

echo "Today is $TODAY"

if [ $TODAY="Saturday" ]

then

echo "Go back to bed"

else

echo "Get your butt out of bed"

fi

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Oh wow. Upon further review I noticed I left out the spaces between the = sign. Unbelievable.

#!/bin/bash

TODAY=$(date +%A)

echo "Today is $TODAY"

if [ $TODAY = "Saturday" ]

then

echo "Go back to bed"

else

echo "Get your butt out of bed"

fi

[m5fromns]

Oh wow. Upon further review I noticed I left out the spaces between the = sign. Unbelievable.

#!/bin/bash

TODAY=$(date +%A)

echo "Today is $TODAY"

if [ $TODAY = "Saturday" ]

then

echo "Go back to bed"

else

echo "Get your butt out of bed"

fi

[Father0fNine]

Yes, and BASH can get very picky about it's spaces at times.

[Cold Titanium]

Yeah, try configuring BIND. Oh Noes!! DNS is broken for the entire network because I forgot to place a period somewhere.