[KLUG Members] scripting question

[Wesley Leonard]

Instead of using =, use -eq, like this:

if [ $value -eq 1 ]


Here's a good reference, the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

l8er

Rusty Yonkers wrote:
> 
> 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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Wesley Leonard

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