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Saifur Rahman Mohsin
Saifur Rahman Mohsin

Reputation: 1011

Date not properly parsed in Bash

I'm trying to get the date to work properly. The time is 5 pm (1700 hours) now i.e. evening but it always says morning. Here's my code

currenthour="$(date "+ %-H")"
echo $currenthour
if [ $currenthour -gt '12' ] && [ $currenthour -lt '16' ]; then
   currenttimeofday="Afternoon"
elif [ $currenthour -gt '16' ] && [ $currenthour -lt '1' ]; then
   currenttimeofday="Evening"
 else
   currenttimeofday="Morning"
fi
echo $currenttimeofday

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Theofilos Papapanagiotou
Theofilos Papapanagiotou

Reputation: 5599

You need to remove the space between the plus and the percentage symbol, your variable then will be used properly in the condition.

Upvotes: 1

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