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Old 09-17-2009
problem with a loop
Hi

What is wrong with this loop
it was taken has a example in book!!!
it returns
[5.10: not found

#!/bin/sh -x
MYVER=`uname -a | awk '{print $3}'`
echo $MYVER
{
if ["$MYVER" = "5.10"]
then
/usr/sbin/svcadm disable ppserv
else /usr/sbin/ppadmin stop
fi
}
# 2  
Old 09-17-2009
You're missing the spaces between the square brackets and what's inside:

Code:
if [ "$MYVER" = "5.10" ]

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Old 09-17-2009
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Code:
#!/bin/sh -x
MYVER=`uname -a | awk '{print $3}'`
echo $MYVER
        {
        if [ "$MYVER" = "5.10" ]
        then
                /usr/sbin/svcadm disable ppserv
        else
                /usr/sbin/ppadmin stop
        fi
        }

# 4  
Old 09-17-2009
Hi
It was the spaces between the square brackets :-)
it is ok

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Thank you all
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