Question

If there some difference between the bash of Mac OS and other linuxs’?
I wrote a simple bash script named “test.sh” like this:

#!/bin/bash
MYVAR=abc
if [ $MYVAR = abc ]; then
echo "ok"
fi

When I run it in terminal, some error occurs:

./test.sh: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `then'
./test.sh: line 3: `if[ $MYVAR = abc ]; then'

then I delete the character “;” before “then” and run the script again, some infos occurs:

./test.sh: line 3: if[ abc = abc ]: command not found
ok
./test.sh: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
./test.sh: line 5: `fi'

Could someone tell me what’s wrong with my script?

Answer 1

Consider putting spaces into your file the way you put it in your example (if [).