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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting I can't get what I'm doing wrong! Post 302673285 by methyl on Tuesday 17th of July 2012 07:26:05 PM
Old 07-17-2012
First impression: Missing newline before "then", no quotes round "$cake".

Code:
read cake
if [ "$cake" == "1" ]
then
    echo "1 it is"
fi

Please post what Operating System you are running and what Shell you use.
The syntax posted suggests that the Shell is bash.
The error message is still a bit weird. Was this script definitely created with a unix editor (not Windows notepad).
 

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cpanplus::shell::default::plugins::source

CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source(3)		User Contributed Perl Documentation	      CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source(3)

NAME

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source - read in CPANPLUS commands

SYNOPSIS

	   CPAN Terminal> /source /tmp/list_of_commands /tmp/more_commands

DESCRIPTION

       This is a "CPANPLUS::Shell::Default" plugin that works just like your unix shells source(1) command; it reads in a file that has commands
       in it to execute, and then executes them.

       A sample file might look like this:

	   # first, update all the source files
	   x --update_source

	   # find all of my modules that are on the CPAN
	   # test them, and store the error log
	   a ^KANE$'
	   t *
	   p /home/kane/cpan-autotest/log

	   # and inform us we're good to go
	   ! print "Autotest complete, log stored; please enter your commands!"

       Note how empty lines, and lines starting with a '#' are being skipped in the execution.

BUG REPORTS

       Please report bugs or other issues to <bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org<gt>.

AUTHOR

       This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       The CPAN++ interface (of which this module is a part of) is copyright (c) 2001 - 2007, Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

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

SEE ALSO

       CPANPLUS::Shell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell, cpanp

perl v5.16.3							    2013-05-20			      CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source(3)
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