On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 23:46 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I think you are missing some very basic concepts here. First, the
> shell likes to parse things separated by white space. Second, [ is a
> synonym for test which is a build-in version of /bin/test, so try 'man
> test' for the syntax of tests. And third, you generally should use
> double quotes around variables in tests so they continue to exist as
> an empty string if the variable happens to not be set.
Thanks for that. I assumed if test 1 worked, so would test 2.
Have re-run test 2 with
> 16 if [ $file = "law00css" ]
> 17 then
> 18 echo $file
> 19 echo "css"
> 20 else
> 21 echo "no css"
> 22 fi
and got
> + '[' law45p07a01 = law00css ']'
> + echo 'no css'
> no css
> + exit
which is correct (for the first time). It seems that following your
good advice and plonking spaces around the = has solved the problem.
Thank you very much. Now I can go to bed a satisfied person :-)
--
Regards,
Paul.
England, EU. Je suis Charlie.
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