I need to compare two report names, that is, two strings. When I tried to use the following expression: if (( $word1 -eq $rptname )) or if [[ $word1 -eq $rptname ]] system report: syntax error If I use the following expression: if ( $word1 -eq $rptname ) System seems to think the two strings are different, but they are the same, I can see use ECHO command. Can anyone kindly advise the correct expression? Or maybe there is some other thing wrong? Thanks!

-eq is for matching integers, and (()) is for integer expressions. Try if [[ $word1 = $rptname ]] then print Match else print No match fi For integers you could use integer int1=1 int2=2 if (( int1 == int2 )) then print Match else print No match fi Note that '=' becomes an assignment operator inside (()).

Thanks William, Using your ways, I have been successful getting the results. Thanks so much!