IF Help

Chris Norman cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk
Sat Apr 22 19:08:19 EDT 2006


Cheers.

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georgina Joyce" <gena at genaj.plus.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: IF Help


> Hi
>
> As it is bash scripting, just type at your prompt "help if".  Looks like 
> we're on our own in trying to do these little jobs.
>
> Gena
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Chris Norman wrote:
>> Hi people,
>> I want to use the if command, but can't find any manual page for it.
>>
>> I want to use it to run a command, and at present, I have:
>>
>> if date -r $file +%V -lt $number; then
>> #statements
>> fi
>>
>> But it won't work.
>>
>> $file is a filename. How do I do this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris Norman
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