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Old 02-10-2009
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Originally Posted by quirkasaurus View Post
try putting the comparisons within double quotes like so:

while [ "$f1" = "$f2" ]; do
I still get this error.

I the directory i have s.txt and st.txt
both f1 and f2 should have the same value. It seems like comparison failed.

$ ./st.txt
s.txt st.txt
s.txt st.txt
./st.txt: line 6: [s.txt st.txt: command not found