--=-kgEokq2pkcxQrvpTzJqc Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you. That gave me an idea to use the length of the string of differences and if >0, then it does stuff. Now, part two. Can someone please tell me how to pass a password to cvs for logging into a pserver? On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 19:01, Kevin Brown wrote: > Bryce C wrote: > > Hello all. I was wondering if anyone knew how to do an if statement in > > bash to see if results were returned? I want to write a bash script to > > run hourly that will grep my mailbox for a certain text if the results > > are different than the contents of another, previous output, then runn > > another command. Somethinng like: > >=20 > > cat file|grep Text>/tmp/NewText.grep > > diff /tmp/NewText.grep /tmp/Text.grep > > if( diff returned anything ) ./runme > > mv /tmp/NewText.grep /tmp/Text.grep > >=20 > > I just don't know what if switches are available (to use) in bash. > > Thank you. > >=20 > Here's a sample bash script I wrote: >=20 > SIZE=3D`ls -l $HOME | grep tvguide.all.html | awk '{ print $5 }'` > GT=3D`expr $SIZE \> $MINSIZE` > if [ "$GT" -eq 1 ] > then > mv -f ./tvguide.all.html $DEST/tvguide.all.html > fi >=20 >=20 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --=20 Bryce C CoBryce Communications --=-kgEokq2pkcxQrvpTzJqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA+HjPy/wbq/C6yyPcRAgjlAJ44VTffdjh4kNo4/MkRni7l9wS2SQCeINh5 udayZfiu2XiRcxWumiV0p8o= =9mvl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-kgEokq2pkcxQrvpTzJqc--