[CLUE-Tech] shell programming

[David Guntner]

Lynn Danielson grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 04:13, David Guntner wrote:
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > if [ $LOGNAME = "root" ]; then
> >   echo "Hello root"
> > else
> >   echo "You aren't root"
> > fi
> 
> A minor point about the test statement. It is more important to
> quote your variables rather than your constants.  For example,
> [ "$LOGNAME" = root ].  Then if your variable is null, the test
> won't throw an error.

Oh yea, that's absolutely true.  Got my quotes around the wrong part. :-)  
Thanks for pointing that out.

                      ==Dave
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