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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu [: too many arguments Post 303032930 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 26th of March 2019 11:31:54 PM
Old 03-27-2019
-eq is used for numbers not strings.

Try using double quotes and the equal sign:
Code:
if [ "$valueA" = "$valueB" ] ; then
   # do something here
fi

du -sh produces two strings, so I guess you want the first "number" which is an alphanumeric value.
Code:
$ du -sh $HOME
523M    /home/Owner

So if this is the case what do you actually want to compare? First value?
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 03-27-2019 at 12:38 AM..
 

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