What's wrong with this condition

Shell Programming and Scripting
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if [ [ -n `grep ${TARGET_PATH_OK} ${PREPAVAL_TRAVAIL}/${EDI_DIRS_list}` ] && [ -d `grep ${TARGET_PATH_OK} ${PREPAVAL_TRAVAIL}/${EDI_DIRS_list}` ] ]
      then
 

 
+ [ -n
./prepaval.ksh[2578]: test: ] missing

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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Hi try

if [[ -n `grep ${TARGET_PATH_OK} ${PREPAVAL_TRAVAIL}/${EDI_DIRS_list}` ]] && [[ -d `grep ${TARGET_PATH_OK} ${PREPAVAL_TRAVAIL}/${EDI_DIRS_list}` ]]

There should be no spaces between the square brackets.

Regards

Dave

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Or remove the outer brackets..

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But can you suggest me solution to avoid empty condition because of grep.
In conditio, I am finding a value in a list. If it is found then condition complete if it is not found then condition is incomplete, for which error thows.

test: argument expected
5

Try putting double quotes around the back ticks...

-or alternatively make use of grep's return code, perhaps this will also server your purpose-

if grep -Fq "${TARGET_PATH_OK}" "${PREPAVAL_TRAVAIL}/${EDI_DIRS_list}" && [ -d "${TARGET_PATH_OK}" ]
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Thanks for you suggestion, it worked :slight_smile:

Now what is wrong with this:

        if [ "${FXML_line:1129:1}" = "S" -o "${FXML_line:1129:1}" = "H" ]

Error:

[2586]: "${FXML_line:1129:1}": bad substitution
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I am guessing your shell does not support this. You would need bash or ksh93.

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9

If it didn't then it shouldn't have worked from test file...!

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How were you calling the script? You should call it as ./script bash ./script and not as sh ./script . Is there a shebang on the first line of the script?

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