Variable not being processed in the if condition .Bash script

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I have a simple bash script #!/bin/bash Result =$(zgrep -i "blocked session" /BACKUP/server.log.2019-06-23-06.gz | wc -l) if [[ "$Result" -ge 1 ]]; then echo "CRITICAL : The error string is found $Result times in server.log file" exit 2 else echo "OK: No instances of the error string in the server.log file " exit 0 fi There is about 1744 instances of the error string which the wc -l captures correctly but not being used in the if condition and I...

Originally asked by Karthik on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Remove the space from second line: Result=$(zgrep -i "blocked session" /BACKUP/server.log.2019-06-23-06.gz | wc -l) instead of Result =$(zgrep -i "blocked session" /BACKUP/server.log.2019-06-23-06.gz | wc -l)

Full answer by Bart: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/526767 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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