In the process of writing a shell script, I ran into an issue with the following if/else statement that falls somewhere in the middle of the script:

if [ $act -eq "add" ]
then read - "add or update: " $comm git commit -m "$comm $file"
else git commit -m "$act $file"
fi

The returning error being:

./gitup: line 13: [: add: integer expression expected

and then proceeds with the rest of the script. How can I have the if segment evaluate/compare the variable to a string input rather than an integer; a different error was required when using "!=" among a couple of other things I tried.

2 Answers

Something like this:

act="add"
if [[ $act = "add" ]]
then echo good
else echo not good
fi

-eq is for number comparison, use = for string comparison

2

This method would also work. Very similar to @Guru's answer but removes the need for double square brackets.

if [ "$act" == "add" ]
then
echo "Good!" else echo "Not good!"
fi

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