OT: stupid sh scripting question

[Jerry McAllister]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:07:43PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:

> 
> 	This is probably staring me in the face:
> 
> if [ ! -d "foo"] 
> 	then mkdir foo
> fi
> 
> 	gives me:
> 
> [: missing ]

It is probably not telling you ':' missing but ';' missing.
It goes after the ']', plus I think the space before ']' is required.

////jerry

> 
> 	Looking at rc.subr I see:
> 
> if [ ! -d "$linkdir" ]; then
>            warn "$_me: the directory $linkdir does not exist."
>            return 1
> fi
> 
> 
> 					Robert Huff
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