Question

I need to check two variables, count and count1, for equality with 2.

I tried the following code, but it didn’t work:

if [ $count -eq 2 || $count1 -eq 2 ]; then
    echo "Condition passsed"
fi

How can I fix it?

Answer 1

That type of conditional doesn’t recognize ||. You either need to use -o (or), or use a [[ test:

if [ $count -eq 2 -o $count1 -eq 2 ]; then
    echo "Condition passsed"
fi

if [[ $count -eq 2 || $count1 -eq 2 ]]; then
    echo "Condition passsed"
fi