I have made the following simple script:
a=0
let a=$a+1
if [["$a"="1]"]
then mailx -s "Up" abc@yahoo.com
fi
When I run the above script, I get the following error:
# ./new.ksh
./new.ksh[3]: [[1=1]]: not found.
Please tell me how to use if here?
here is the error
if [["$a"="1]"]
re-write it as
if [[ "$a" = "1" ]] ; then
The error suggests a problem at line 3.
Look at line 3. There is 1 going on 5 problems there (depending on whether you typed it in, or pasted it).
Thanks.
Actually that was a typo... Now I made the changes, now the script is running. But it keeps on running and I have to kill it. After killing once it shows the following messgae:
# ./new.ksh
(Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
When I kill again, then I get the hash prompt back.
The second Ctrl-C is necessary to interrupt mailx which was invoked by your script.
To tell mailx that we have finished typing the mail body we send it just a line feed. This should stop your script hanging if all you want to do is send an email with the subject line "Up" and no mail body.
echo "" | mailx -s "Up" abc@yahoo.com
Thanks all for the help. Its working fine now.