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user8378799
user8378799

Reputation:

Error in simple shell script prorgam

I am new to shell scripting and stuck in some syntax error in a simple program. I read an integer and compare it with some value to display the result Please tell me how to rectify it.

#! /bin/bash

read n
if [ "$n" -le 12 ]
then
 echo "a kid"
elif[ "$n" -lt 18 ]
then
 echo "a teen"
else
 echo "an adult"
fi

The error was:

./hello.sh: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `then'
./hello.sh: line 8: `then'

Upvotes: 3

Views: 48

Answers (1)

Ollin Boer Bohan
Ollin Boer Bohan

Reputation: 2401

You're missing a space between elif and [, which causes a parsing error later on.

For future reference, the shellcheck tool is a good way to diagnose errors like this one.

Upvotes: 4

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