Why is the value of this string, in a bash script, being executing?
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Hello
Why is this script executing the string in the if statement:
#!/bin/bash
FILES="*"
STRING=''
for f in $FILES
do
if ["$STRING" = ""]
then
echo first
STRING='hello'
else
STRING="$STRING hello"
fi
done
echo $STRING
when run it with sh script.sh outputs:
first
lesscd.sh: line 7: [hello: command not found
lesscd.sh: line 7: [hello hello: command not found
lesscd.sh: line 7: [hello hello hello: command not found
lesscd.sh: line 7: [hello hello hello hello: command not found
lesscd.sh: line 7: [hello hello hello hello hello: command not found
hello hello hello hello hello hello
p.s. first attempt at a shell script
thanks
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