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i will correct myself:

'search' will have a null value and my code should be

if [[ "$search" = "" ]]

i already added the closing back tick.. thanks..

if the user didn't enter a parameter in the command line, the value of 'search' would just be blank spaces.. if i do this:

if [[ "$search" = " " ]]

it doesn't return a true value..

it works now!!! yehey!!! thanks for the help... i need to to solve 2 more problems.. maybe i'm going to post questions again here.. thank you again!!

i think i know where the problem is.. wait..

i already checked the value of the parameters using "echo"..

search="$@"


date_files="`date -r "$i""

substring="${date_files:3:7}"

if [[ "$substring" = "$search" ]]



here's some parts of the code i'm working on..
this is how i initialized...

what if the string for the variable search will come from the output of a command line? placing-double-quotes solution will not be applicable then...

search=Jul 22
date=Jul 22

if [ "$search" = "$date" ]
then
echo They match

>>this piece of code does not detect that search and date are equivalent strings.. what's wrong with it?