[giuseppe105]

I have the statement

if [ "$hasDir" == "y" ]

and when i run the script it tells me

[: 165: n: unexpected operator

PS the "n" its referring to is user input

im looking at other code on the internet and everyone else is doing it the same way i am...

[giuseppe105]

sorry guys i fixed it

i was running the BASH script with the SH command

when i ran it usieng the bash command it started working

tnx guys

[sepp2k]

Note that if you use = instead of ==, it will work in all shells (including dash, which I assume your sh points to).

Allowing == instead of = in conditional expressions is a non-standard extension allowed by bash (among others), but not dash (or the original bourne shell, I suppose).

[no2pencil]

The equals sign is for string conditionals, & the dash is for digit conditional comparison.

[sepp2k]

no2pencil, on 04 July 2011 - 03:24 AM, said:

The equals sign is for string conditionals, & the dash is for digit conditional comparison.

I think you misunderstood me.

Using bash, the bourne again shell, (and some other shells) you can use == instead of = without problem (though it gains you nothing), while using dash, the Debian Almquist shell, which /bin/sh points to on Debian and Ubuntu systems (as well as other debian-derived systems, I imagine), you can only use = and using == will cause the error which the OP encountered.

Numerical comparisons should be made using -eq etc. instead of = or == and don't figure into this at all.