Dale Scheetz writes: >I have been trying to learn shell scripting using the man page for >bash. Asside from the need for a lot of reading between the lines, >there seem to be several errors. == is declared to be the equality >operator, but = is the correct syntax.
You're confusing arithmetic evaluation with the syntax of test(1). >|| is declared to be the or operator, but although: > >if [ a != b ] > >works fine > >if [ a != b || c != d ] > >fails with several errors ( ']' not found, and != command not found ) Use `-o' instead of ||. You should read the man page for test(1), or the section of the bash man pages which deals with the built-in version. And read some shell scripts written by other people l-) -- Richard Kettlewell http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. -- Fred Allen
