Re: Bash - IF Statement

[paul dot hermeneutic at gmail dot com]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 15:15, briglass111 <briglass@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.

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