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Tom Jacky
Tom Jacky

Reputation: 203

"if" statements of bash under mac os

If there some difference between the bash of Mac OS and other linuxs'? I wrote a simple bash script named "test.sh" like this:

#!/bin/bash
MYVAR=abc
if [ $MYVAR = abc ]; then
echo "ok"
fi

When I run it in terminal, some error occurs:

./test.sh: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `then'
./test.sh: line 3: `if[ $MYVAR = abc ]; then'

then I delete the character ";" before "then" and run the script again, some infos occurs:

./test.sh: line 3: if[ abc = abc ]: command not found
ok
./test.sh: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
./test.sh: line 5: `fi'

Could someone tell me what's wrong with my script?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6199

Answers (2)

choroba
choroba

Reputation: 241768

[ is a command (same as test). It must be separated by spaces on both sides.

Upvotes: 2

Michael Krelin - hacker
Michael Krelin - hacker

Reputation: 143051

Consider putting spaces into your file the way you put it in your example (if [).

Upvotes: 4

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