My bash script keeps failing because it gets confused at the hyphen:
if [ ! -d "$openssl-1.0.1i"]; then ...
How do I escape it correctly?
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2Are you sure it's in the hyphen? You've forgot a space before `]`. – pacholik Sep 30 '15 at 07:46
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It's not the hyphen, you must leave a space surrounding each argument in your test construct:
if [ ! -d "$openssl-1.0.1i" ]; then ..
Why do you have a $ before openssl? It's not a variable is it? If not, it should be just:
if [ ! -d "openssl-1.0.1i" ]; then ..
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