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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting If Statement Post 302095246 by lazarwebscapes on Sunday 5th of November 2006 12:56:02 PM
Old 11-05-2006
Having trouble with simple If Statement
I'm trying to run a simple If statement, but am getting errors....please advise

#!/bin/bash
echo What is your name?
read name
if $name = Peter
then echo Hey! That is my name, too!
else echo That is not a bad name either.
fi

It doesn't seem to like line 4. How do I tighten that up so that it will work correctly? Thanks, and I realize this really is UNIX child's play. I just don't have anyone else to ask.
 

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ppi::statement::unknown

PPI::Statement::Unknown(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				PPI::Statement::Unknown(3)

NAME

       PPI::Statement::Unknown - An unknown or transient statement

INHERITANCE

	 PPI::Statement::Unknown
	 isa PPI::Statement
	     isa PPI::Node
		 isa PPI::Element

DESCRIPTION

       The "PPI::Statement::Unknown" class is used primarily during the lexing process to hold elements that are known to be statement, but for
       which the exact "type" of statement is as yet unknown, and requires further tokens in order to resolve the correct type.

       They should not exist in a fully parse valid document, and if any exists they indicate either a problem in Document, or possibly (by
       allowing it to get through unresolved) a bug in PPI::Lexer.

METHODS

       "PPI::Statement::Unknown" has no additional methods beyond the default ones provided by PPI::Statement, PPI::Node and PPI::Element.

SUPPORT

       See the support section in the main module.

AUTHOR

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2011-02-26						PPI::Statement::Unknown(3)
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