I am new to shell scripting. I am using cygwin to run my scripts.
I ran this script from c:\shell

Here is the script i have.

cd //biz/stcurrentbuilds/1_0
f1=`dir`
echo $f1
f2=`dir`
echo $f2
while [$f1=$f2]
Do
f2=`dir`
echo "No new build"
done

When i run i get error
./ st.txt: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `done'

Can someone please let me know what is wrong with my script?

Thanks,

"Do" shouldn't be capitalized.

Thanks.

Now i got line 6 command not found error. It seems some thing wrong with expression in while loop. Appreciate if you can please help.

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

Thanks quirkasaurus
I'm all set.
I wasn't using spaces before and after variable and "=" sing in the comparison.
Thanks agian.