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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Test function not working Post 302795771 by oahmad on Thursday 18th of April 2013 10:39:15 AM
Old 04-18-2013
Test function not working
i am writing the following snippet and cannot figure out why the variable measType remains 0. it should be 1

I also tried "\#analog" and '\#analog' in the test statement and it still doesn't work. What is going on?

Code:
bash$ measType=0
bash$ read line < 2iconfig.ini
bash$ echo $line
#analog
bash$ if [ "$line" = "#analog" ]; then
> measType=1
>fi
bash$ echo $measType
0
bash$

 

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