On 09:57 10 Nov 2003, Stuart Stephen <stuart.stephen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| I have the following script in a file, which as far as I can see complies to
| the help in the OS. ('$ help if'). However, when I try to run the script it
| does not work?
|
| Instead I get the following errors at runtime.
|
| /root/scripts/proj.install: line 48: syntax error near unexpected token
| `then'
| /root/scripts/proj.install: line 48: ` if[ "$?" == 1 ]; then '
|
| I don't understand what is wrong with it, from what I can tell the only
| thing I can do is make it an exclusive if statement and therefore I couldn't
| have an else or elif in the function? I'm confused to why it would not work?
| Please could someone enlighten me of where i'm going wrong?
|
| Thanks,
| Stuart Stephen
|
| ...blah...
| cont
| ...blah...
|
| cont() {
| /root/scripts/continue
| if[ "$?" == 1 ];
You need a space around all the tokens in the test statement:
if [ "$?" == 1 ];
Also, you want "=", not "==".
Cheers,
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