[ale] Dumb shell scripting question

[Ken Nagorski]

Ok, thanks...

Man. I am losing it, cause I must have known that at some point in time.


On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Byron A Jeff wrote:

> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > 	I have stuff like this before but I am having a problem with this
> > peice of code. 
> > 
> > echo -n "Are the drive ready to be formated and mounted? [y/n] "
> > read confirm
> > if [ $confirm=n ]
> 
> Your problem is right here. Spaces are significant in the shell. When using
> test each word must be separated by space. Try this instead:
> 
> if [ "$confirm" = n ] 
> 
> Use the double quotes just in case the user decides to enter nothing, so
> that the script will generate an empty, yet valid, word if nothing is
> entered at the propmt.
> 
> BAJ
> 
> >  then
> >   echo "bye..."
> >   exit 0
> > fi
> > 
> > 	No matter what it exits... Maybe I am just going nuts. But I
> > thought bash would return 1 only if the comparison was true. right? For
> > some reason no matter what it echo's bye and exits. Hmm, not the desired
> > result... 
> > 	Did I just lose my mind. Cause this is liek pretty simple bash no?
> > 
> > OK, thanks
> > Ken 
> > 
> > -- 
> >  I couldn't quite remember what I was going to say 
> >            so I causally tip another sip of whatever it was I was drinking,
> > 
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