Question

I’m writing a shell script and I’m doing

if ["$item0" == "$item1"]
then
echo match
fi

but it’s giving the error message “No such file or directory” on the line when run. The items above do contain file paths if that helps.

Answer 1

You need to note the spaces for between variables and the brackets, they matter. Also if then is on the same line as if, you need a ;

Corrected syntax:

if [ "$item0" == "$item1" ]; then
    echo match
fi

P.S. if match is supposed to be a variable, make sure it’s echo "$match"