Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:56:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with scripting files (== operator) In-Reply-To: <20031016194728.70447.qmail@web13008.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20031016194728.70447.qmail@web13008.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Your command prompt is probably /bin/bash, your script uses /bin/sh? That's /bin/ash, and you may have a syntax issue. man ash Try using test instead of [ ]. HTH On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Lynden Jones wrote: > I downloaded just the default cygwin packages and ran > into a single problem with running script files. > Whenever I use the == operator (string comparison), I > get an error that says: "[: ==: unknown operand". I > can execute the same set of commands from the command > prompt and get no errors. Does anyone know what is > causing this problem? > -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/