Question

Im having trouble with cygwin not running my script file as expected

here is my code

#!/bin/sh
echo "Ja eller nei:"
read svar
if ["$svar" = "ja"]; then
    echo "Du er Positiv"
    exit 0
elif ["$svar" = "nei"]; then
    echo "Du er Negativ"
    exit 0
else
    echo "Du er Nøytral"
fi

and here is my outputin cygwin

$ /cygdrive/c/MyScripts/Bash.sh
Ja eller nei:
ja
': not a valid identifierh.sh: line 6: read: `svar
/cygdrive/c/MyScripts/Bash.sh: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
'cygdrive/c/MyScripts/Bash.sh: line 10: `elif ["$svar" = "nei"]; then

its the 3 last error lines i dont understand per say. i understand where the error’s are but not why they are there.

BTW the reason im saying some is

for i in {1..100}; do echo $i; done

works properly

Answer 1

Try forming your test statements with correct spacing:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Ja eller nei:"
read svar
if [ "$svar" = "ja" ]; then
    echo "Du er Positiv"
    exit 0
elif [ "$svar" = "nei" ]; then
    echo "Du er Negativ"
    exit 0
else
    echo "Du er Nøytral"
fi

This is the output I get:

lnet@bowser ~ $:) sh test.sh
Ja eller nei:
ja
Du er Positiv
lnet@bowser ~ $:) sh test.sh
Ja eller nei:
nei
Du er Negativ
lnet@bowser ~ $:) sh test.sh
Ja eller nei:
fish
Du er N[G[Gøytral
lnet@bowser ~ $:(

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Update (thanks Sorpigal):

Also, make sure your file has proper unix line endings:

dos2unix -f /cygdrive/c/MyScripts/Bash.sh