[KLUG Members] scripting question

[Rusty Yonkers]

Ok ... now most of you will be thinking .... "well duh" ... but I am
not a scripting guru.  So I pose my most simple question most humbly
and hope that the reverberations of laughter do not create an
earthquake.

I am trying to get a piece of scripting to work for an evaluation
using test but it is not evaluating correctly.  The portion of the
script that is not working is 

echo -n "Enter a number: "

read value

if [ $value = 1 ]

then
echo "You have entered 1"
else
echo "You have not entered 1"
echo "You have entered $value"
fi

The problem is that the test always responds with a false results! 
Aaaaaagggghhhh!

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

TIA


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