briglass111 wrote on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:02 PM: > I am trying to write an IF Statement in Bash, but I am having issues. It > doesn't like the following format: > > echo "yes or no?" > read T > > if ["$T"="y"]; > then > echo "YES" > fi > > .............. It also doesn't like the following alternatives: > > if [$T="y"]; > if ["$T"=="y"]; > if [$T=="y"]; > if "$T"="y"; > if [["$T"="y"]]; > > etc.. > > It says: > y=y: command not found > > Ideas?
You need to add some whitespace so bash can distinguish commands and arguments: $ if [ "$T" = "y" ]; then echo "YES"; fi YES BTW, this is not a Cygwin-specific question :) -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
