10-15-2008
comparing two strings
hi All
i am facing prob in comparing two strings that have two word.
below is the code snippet.
checkValidates="file validates"
file3_name="file"
if [ $checkValidates = "$file3_name validates" ]
then
echo "file" $file3_name "is validated successfully"
fi
when i run this i get the error as -bash: [: too many arguments
am i doing something wrong?
Please help..
Thanks
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NAME
ckkeywd - prompts for and validates a keyword
SYNOPSIS
ckkeywd [-Q] [-W width] [-d default] [-h help] [-e error]
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