I am trying to write a shellscript that will assign a variable to curl output. The output of this curl command when I run it from the command line is this:
$curl "test.test.com/landing/505978290?c=Area%20Rug"
www.test.com/test/test?test=test
Going to this url is supposed to simply output a text document with another url. I want to test that this second url is the url it is supposed to be.
url = $(curl "test.test.com/landing/505978290?c=Area%20Rug")
if [$url -gt "www.tazinga.com/landing/505978290?c=area%20rug&si=gw&alt_css=silver&sv=34&"] echo ""test.test.com/landing/505978290?c=Area%20Rug did not redirect properly"
else
echo "Right URL"
fi
However, when I run the shellscript I get this output:
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 75 0 75 0 0 997 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1013
Command not found.
-bash: [: missing `]'
yes
If I try to print out url, I get an empty string. I get this regardless as to whether or not the string correctly matches or not. Why is curl operating differently in a shellscript than from the command line.