I tried putting the $1 in double quotes ("$1") and tried the but no
luck...would it be easier to determine if the argument ($1) exists or not?
If so, how would I do that?
thanks,
Mike
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM, James Forte <james@magna.net> wrote:
> quote the $1 as in "$1"
>
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> On Sat, 17 May 2008, Ron Youvan wrote:
>
> printf "argument= %s\n" "$1" #works correctly
>>>
>>
>> if [$1 -eq ""]; then
>>> cnt=10
>>> printf "$1 is blank\n" "$cnt" else
>>> printf "$1 is not blank\n" "$cnt"
>>> cnt=$1
>>> fi
>>>
>>
>> printf "cnt=%s\n" $cnt
>>>
>>
>> Error: If there is no argument I get this message: line 9: -eq: command
>>> not found
>>> If there is an argument of 15: line 9: 15: command not found
>>>
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? line 9 is the 'if' statement
>>>
>>
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> # /usr/local/bin/bed
>> # by Ron KA4INM Youvan
>> if
>>
>> Here my "if" is on line #4, is that right?
>> if there is no command -eq you may need to put -e -q
>>
>> My "bash" book is for version 2.0 so it is out of date.
>>
>>
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