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I have been trying to get this to work for way too long and I havent found an answer online that fixed my problem yet

I want to give the user the option of 2 commands, backup or restore
the if statement will not work for me
I am used to programming, but I havent programmed a bash script before so I am still learning all of the syntax

PLEASE do me a favor and if you are going to post code you suggest I try, DO NOT type it in sudo-code, that is not helpful for someone who is learning
please take the extra 1-2 minutes to type out the code as you would really place it into the bash file

(rough in code of basicly what I am doing below)

read -p "enter b or r" ask
if [ $ask == 'b' ] (NOTE: I have tried almost every variation of this I can think of with ", ' $ or not = or == no spaces with spaces, I am lost at this point, please help)
then
echo "woo b"
elif [ $ask == 'r' ]
then
echo "woo r"
else
echo "you screwed up"


Thanks for the help

hi,

you need to close an if statement using fi
you don't need two = in single square brackets.
you should also check $ask is a single char.

see you soon

A more elegant solution might be to use "case"



Notice the r|R ............ this will allow a "R" or "r" to successfully work for that option.
Hope that is helpful.