I've noticed that bash is very whitespace sensitive (well, not 'very',
but compared to C...) Put spaces around all of your arguments:
if [ $1 -eq "" ]; then
the missing space before the $1 might be a problem?
--ronan
>
> if [$1 -eq ""]; then
> cnt=10
> printf "$1 is blank\n" "$cnt"
> else
> printf "$1 is not blank\n" "$cnt"
> cnt=$1
> fi
>
> printf "cnt=%s\n" $cnt
>
> Error:
> If there is no argument I get this message: line 9: -eq: command not found
> If there is an argument of 15: line 9: 15: command not found
>
> Anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? line 9 is the 'if' statement
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Fisher
>
>
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