OT: stupid sh scripting question
Kevin Downey
redchin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 12:59:30 PST 2007
On 1/3/07, Bill Moran <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
> In response to Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com>:
>
> >
> > This is probably staring me in the face:
> >
> > if [ ! -d "foo"]
> > then mkdir foo
> > fi
> >
> > gives me:
> >
> > [: missing ]
> >
> > Looking at rc.subr I see:
> >
> > if [ ! -d "$linkdir" ]; then
> > warn "$_me: the directory $linkdir does not exist."
> > return 1
> > fi
>
> The ; after the ] ?
>
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> Bill Moran
> Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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you need a space before the ']'
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