Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ksr!harsha
From: harsha@ksr.com (Paul Harsha)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: IF syntax
Message-ID: <965@ksr.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 18:39:40 GMT
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jon@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) writes:



>#!/bin/sh
>if [$temp != '']  then
>        echo 'remote-caller' >> .people;
>else
>	echo 'inside-caller' >> .people;
>fi

>I keep getting an ELSE UNEXPECTED.  

You need to put the "then" on a seperate line

#!/bin/sh
if [$temp != '']  
then
        echo 'remote-caller' >> .people;
else
        echo 'inside-caller' >> .people;
fi

works just fine.

-Paul