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levk · Jul 22nd, 2005, 10:26 AM

Thanks a lot, that worked; but now I have another problem: I need to execute the insides of the "if" if there was a particular argument or there were no arguments at all. Now it works for the particular arguments but givem me errors if I don't put any arguments; here's what my ifs look like:

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if [ -z $1 -o "$1" = "unix" ]; then

And here's the error I'm getting:

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bash-2.05$ ./logcollect.sh
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments
bash-2.05$

Thank you very much

Edit: it's one line for each "if" I have like that

Jul 22nd, 2005, 10:26 AM	#3
levk Newbie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Thanks a lot, that worked; but now I have another problem: I need to execute the insides of the "if" if there was a particular argument or there were no arguments at all. Now it works for the particular arguments but givem me errors if I don't put any arguments; here's what my ifs look like: (Toggle Plain Text) if [ -z $1 -o "$1" = "unix" ]; then if [ -z $1 -o "$1" = "unix" ]; then And here's the error I'm getting: (Toggle Plain Text) bash-2.05$ ./logcollect.sh ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments bash-2.05$ bash-2.05$ ./logcollect.sh ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments ./logcollect.sh: [: too many arguments bash-2.05$ Thank you very much Edit: it's one line for each "if" I have like that