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Re: Bash Problems & Suggestions
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Bash Problems & Suggestions |
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Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:27:57 -0500 |
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Christopher Buckley <mallardproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:
> EXAMPLE:
> if ["$LOGNAME"=="root"]; then
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> will NOT work. it must be:
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> if [ "$LOGNAME"=="root" ]; then
You need even more whitespace than that.
if [ "$LOGNAME" == "root" ]; then
Otherwise, the test will always be true, since there will be only one
argument between [ and ], and a single argument is true when it is not
empty.
paul