Bash script help: awk time out of date and use

[barmylad]

Hello,

I'm just learning bash scripting and need some help.

What i want to do is give a message at different times of the day, say good morning when between 06:00 and 11:59, good afternoon when its between 12:00 and 18:00 and finally good evening when its between 18:00 and 23:59.

like i said I'm just a beginner so be gentle :p

here is what i have so far:

date > time1
awk '{print $4}' time1

this gives me the time but after that I'm stuck, I have tried a few 'if' statements but i cant get it to work e.g: if (this) then echo "that" sort of stuff but no luck :(

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Barmy.

[unutbu]

Are you looking for hints, or a solution?

[Dill]

You should check out the man page for date:

man date

Instead of having to redirect output or use awk to look for the field you need, you should be able to simplify the output of date to hours, from which you can generate your message accordingly.

If you're still having trouble with conditionals, I would suggest Googling "bash conditionals" and check out the examples in the pages you find.

Cheers,
Dill

[barmylad]

o a solution would be nice and if i could be cheaky enough to ask with an explanation too:D

I was going to say gimme some tips but its dong my head in now so someone please put me out of my misery.

[barmylad]

Ok thanks for the reply Dill I'll check that out.

[unutbu]

#!/bin/bash
hour=$(date +%H) # This returns just the hour
echo "$hour" # <-- See?
if [ "$hour" -lt 12 ]; then # test if hour is < 12
echo "Good morning"
elif [ "$hour" -lt 19 ]; then
echo "Good afternoon"
else
echo "Good evening"
fi

[barmylad]

Haha thank you very much unutbu that is very helpful. ;)

I was going about it all the wrong way like Dill said, and in my if statements i was using () were i shouldn't have been and also {} braces.

Cheers again. :D

Barmy

[ghostdog74]

#!/bin/bash
...
elif [ "$hour" -lt 19 ]; then
echo "Good afternoon"
...

there should be another check for 12 to 19 because from 1 to 11 is morning.