If test script error: "Missing ]"

Shell Programming and Scripting
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EDIT: Resolved
Resolved by changing the first line to bash rather than csh, does bash and csh treat the [] brackets differently?

Hi all,

I'm doing to some basic stuff to teach myself "if"

I've written the following:

 
 #!/bin/csh
  
 echo "This script checks for the test file"
 if [ -a /testing/scripts/test.tst ]
  then
   echo "It is here!"
 fi
 echo 
 echo "All done!"

When I run it it just outputs:

 
 #./IF_TEST.sh
 This script checks for the test file
 Missing ]

I did some googling and found a lot of people had this issue but where they weren't putting a space between the content and the brackets but mine does have a space?

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Although bash and csh are both shell language interpreters, the shell languages they recognize are different. Just like COBOL and C are compiled languages, and you get syntax errors using a COBOL compiler to build a C program or using a C compiler to build a COBOL program. (Or, for those of you who weren't programming in the sixties, Java and C++. :cool: )