I just started to learn shell scripting and i got this script from an online book and tried to run in my terminal. But it throws error message.
Code:
echo $0
-bash
echo $UID
501
cat check_rootuser.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Run as root, of course.
LOG_DIR=/var/log
ROOT_UID=0 # Only users with $UID 0 have root privileges.
LINES=20 # Default number of lines saved.
E_XCD=66 # Can't change directory?
E_NOTROOT=67 # Non−root exit error.
if [ "$UID" −ne "$ROOT_UID" ]
then
echo "Must be root to run this script"
exit $E_NOTROOT
fi
Code:
./check_rootuser.sh
./check_rootuser.sh: line 10: [: −ne: binary operator expected
please help me to solve this error.
Thanks
Selva
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Last edited by RudiC; 04-04-2017 at 07:49 AM..
Reason: Added CODE tags.
One thing you could try is using != instead of -ne. As RudiC has said, different versions of Bash can behave differently in this type of situation, depending on what they think they're comparing and what the situation precisely is.
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