[help] Bash Shell Script

Delarosa

<div class="IPBDescription"> - need help</div> here's the program...


echo " please enter number"
read num
echo " please enter number 2 "
read num2

hold=0

if [ $num -ge $num2 ]
then
$hold="$num"
else
$hold="$num2"

fi



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now, i'm getting errors on the assignment lines, and for some reason, i can't see where i'm going wrong... any help is appreciated.

DOOManiac

ahh, the horror :O

My syntax is crying! :O

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<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Not a bash (get it? HAR HAR HAR) on you, but rather the horrible horrible language. :P</span>
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Jefe

{}

minsk

Need to yank the dollar signs on the left-hand side of the assignments. Any $variable will get replaced before bash tries to execute the script, so what is actually happening is the same as if you typed '0="42"' on the command line -- confusion