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Old 04-10-2008
nadman123 nadman123 is offline
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tell me whats wrong in this?

#! /bin/bash
head -5 $1
echo "remove $1 ?"
read answer
if ["$answer"=""]
then
echo invalid answer
elif["$answer"="y"]

rm $1
echo "$1 is deleted"
elif["$answer"="n"]
then
echo file is not deleted
else
echo "invalid answer"
fi

What i really want this to do is to ask to delete the file or not..it says something wrong with the line9..i cant see anything wrong there..guys please help me..