Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have a variable which stores the path of a directory ,as
a=home/t1/o2o/root
I have other variable say b which stores same path ..i.e
b= home/t1/o2o/root
I want to compare these variables and then execute a script...

I tried using if as

if [ ~$a~ -eq ~$b~ ]
then echo "variables are equal"
fi
But I am getting an error.

can anyone help me with this??

Code:

 if [ $a = $b ]; then echo "variables are equal"; fi

Worked for me.

you're doing a numeric compare.

try:

Code:

if [[ "$a" = "$b" ]]; then
  echo variables are equal
fi