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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help with if clause in bash script Post 302468768 by kurtdriver on Wednesday 3rd of November 2010 06:52:36 PM
Old 11-03-2010
Have you got a space at the end of your test brackets? Yours seems to end with -lt "1"] Without the space bash thinks that the bracket is part of the rest of it.
 

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