Command not found error in Bash variable assignment
I have this script called test.sh:
#!/bin/bash
STR = "Hello World"
echo $STR
when I run sh test.sh I get this:
test.sh: line 2: STR: command not found
What am I doing wrong? I look at extremely basic/beginners bash scripting tutorials online and this is how they say to declare variables... So I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
I'm on Ubuntu Server 9.10. And yes, bash is located at /bin/bash.
#!/usr/bin/env bash instead of putting directly #!/bin/bash unless you're absolutely sure your bash is in /bin because of this answer: stackoverflow.com/a/21613044/3589567
You cannot have spaces around the = sign.
When you write:
STR = "foo"
bash tries to run a command named STR with 2 arguments (the strings = and foo)
When you write:
STR =foo
bash tries to run a command named STR with 1 argument (the string =foo)
When you write:
STR= foo
bash tries to run the command foo with STR set to the empty string in its environment.
I'm not sure if this helps to clarify or if it is mere obfuscation, but note that:
the first command is exactly equivalent to: STR "=" "foo", the second is the same as STR "=foo", and the last is equivalent to STR="" foo.
The relevant section of the sh language spec, section 2.9.1 states:
A "simple command" is a sequence of optional variable assignments and redirections, in any sequence, optionally followed by words and redirections, terminated by a control operator.
In that context, a word is the command that bash is going to run. Any string containing = (in any position other than at the beginning of the string) which is not a redirection and in which the portion of the string before the = is a valid variable name is a variable assignment, while any string that is not a redirection or a variable assignment is a command. In STR = "foo", STR is not a variable assignment.
Drop the spaces around the = sign:
#!/bin/bash
STR="Hello World"
echo $STR
set foo = bar is a common mistake in Windows batch files as well—and there the batch language is ridiculed for it ;-)
In the interactive mode everything looks fine:
$ str="Hello World"
$ echo $str
Hello World
Obviously(!) as Johannes said, no space around =. In case there is any space around = then in the interactive mode it gives errors as
No command 'str' found
STR = "Hello World", so this answer does not apply here.
$ mark
I know this has been answered with a very high-quality answer. But, in short, you cant have spaces.
#!/bin/bash
STR = "Hello World"
echo $STR
Didn't work because of the spaces around the equal sign. If you were to run...
#!/bin/bash
STR="Hello World"
echo $STR
It would work
When you define any variable then you do not have to put in any extra spaces.
E.g.
name = "Stack Overflow"
// it is not valid, you will get an error saying- "Command not found"
So remove spaces:
name="Stack Overflow"
and it will work fine.
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FOO-BAR=quxis not a variable assignment sinceFOO-BARis not a valid name.$st=$iis not a variable assignment. It expands to a string, and that string is executed as a command. It seems like you are trying to doeval $st=$i. Don't do that.