On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 15:15, briglass111 <brigl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > my friend pointed out that the problem is that there needs to be extra > spaces: > > [ "$T" = "y" ]; > > good job, bash
I am not sure your comment is praising or bemoaning the bash shell. The shell interpreter needs a space after the square bracket in order to distinguish this conditional test from an indexed or associative array subscript. -- 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