Michael Williams wrote:
> if [-d $i]
That is not the correct syntax. The [ is a shell builtin, not a shell
metacharacter. Shell metacharacters do not need to be separated by
whitespace but the test program needs to be apart or it won't be
parsed right. That is why you are seeing "[-d" no
Hi All,
I've got a script that I'm trying to set up, but it keeps telling me
that "[-d command not found". Can someone please explain what is
wrong with this?:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $*
do
{
if [-d $i]
then
echo "$i is a directory! Yay!"
else
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-redhat-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPAC
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
According to Pratiksha Powar on 9/11/2007 3:44 AM:
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 16
Bash is now at 3.2 patchlevel 25. You may want to consider upgrading.
> Following is the code (in a shell script)which redirects find command
> output to a file
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i586
OS: linux
Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.0
-L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.0/../readline-5.0
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-su
