Question

What is wrong with this? I can’t seem to assign anything to the $SITE var. The “rm”s don’t work either. Am I concatenation the command and var wrong?

newsite () {
    local SITE = $1;
    if [ -z "$1" ]; then # Is parameter #1 zero length?
            echo 'Please give the site a name'
            read = SITENAME;
            $SITE = $SITENAME
    fi

    git clone git://mydomain/site_template.git $SITE
    echo "New site has been created called: \"$SITE\"."
    rm -rf $SITE"/.git";
    rm $SITE"/README.txt";
    return 0
}

Answer 1

take care of whitespaces:

local SITE=$1

also:

read SITENAME

and

SITE=$SITENAME