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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare strings with space in if statement Post 302880799 by cartrider on Monday 23rd of December 2013 02:12:36 PM
Old 12-23-2013
Compare strings with space in if statement

Code:
DEV> vi test_if_statement.sh 
"test_if_statement.sh" [Incomplete last line] 9 lines, 205 characters 
proc_out="Normal completion"
proc_out_comp="Normal completion"
echo 'proc_out:'$proc_out
echo 'proc_out_comp:'$proc_out_comp
if [ $proc_out = "Normal completion" ] then
echo 'match'
else
echo 'no_match'
fi
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:q!
->DEV> test_if_statement.sh 
proc_out:Normal completion
proc_out_comp:Normal completion
./test_if_statement.sh: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `else'
./test_if_statement.sh: line 7: `else'
->DEV>

Any idea how to get 'match in the result?
 

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