[plug] Simple bash scripting problem (again)
Craig Ringer
craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Mon Oct 10 20:51:29 WST 2005
Timothy White wrote:
> if [ $ARTIST == "" ]; then
>
>
This line won't do what you expect if $ARTIST is the empty string; you
probably meant "$ARTIST".
> ARTIST = `echo $file | cut -d- -f1`
>
>
The shell is fussy about spaces around the = operator, so this won't
work like you expect.
$ ARTIST = fred
bash: ARTIST: command not found
$ ARTIST=fred
$
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Craig Ringer
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