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Append if it's wednesday

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I'd like to overwrite a file if its tuesday, but any other day of the week I'd like to append the file?

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I figured it out day=`date +%a` newday="Tue" if [ $day == $newday ]; then cat PA.1 > PA.2 else cat PA.1 >> PA.2 fi I'm learning!

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Name: David Perry
Date: August 7, 2006 at 20:01:50 Pacific

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if [ `date +%w` -eq 2 ] ; then cat PA.1 > PA.2 else cat PA.1 >> PA.2 fi

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Name: lchi2000g
Date: August 8, 2006 at 05:24:05 Pacific

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resuable variable: case `date +%a` in Tue) GOTO=">" ;; *) GOTO=">>" ;; esac eval cat PA.1 $GOTO PA.2 Luke Chi

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