Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Graham White <graham@bravenet.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Newbie Bash-question Message-ID: <20010713144955.P25152-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <CIEEIPPHEMBKLIMPEJFBCEAOCBAA.graham@bravenet.com>
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[ expects an integer for both arg 1 and arg 2. .30 is not an integer. if [ $LOAD -qt 1 ]; then should work for you. IF you need more granularity, you can use Perl. Joe Clarke On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Graham White wrote: > I'm very new to scripting so bear with me. I'm trying to generate an e-mail > when a load > average on a server exceeds a certain point. I can extract out the > appropriate field with the command sequence below. I am however getting an > integer expected error for the $LOAD > variable. I guess its pulling out the field as a string. Is there any way > to convert it to an integer? Also is there an issue with the numbers being > decimal? I hope this makes sense, thanks. > > > > LOAD=`uptime | sed -e "s/.*load average: \(.*\...\), .*\..., .*\.../\1/" -e > "s/ //g"| cut -d"," -f5` > > if [ $LOAD -gt .30 ] #integer expected here. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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