Trying to create a Bash function

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What is wrong with this? I can't seem to assign anything to the $SITE var. The "rm"s don't work either. Am I concatenation the command and var wrong?

newsite () { local SITE = $1; if [ -z "$1" ]; then # Is parameter #1 zero length? echo 'Please give the site a name' read = SITENAME; $SITE = $SITENAME fi git clone git://mydomain/site_template.git $SITE echo "New site has been created called: \"$SITE\"." rm -rf $SITE"/.git"; rm $SITE"/README.txt"; return 0 }

Karoly Horvath · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-24 22:33:02Z

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take care of whitespaces:

local SITE=$1

also:

read SITENAME

and

SITE=$SITENAME

answered Oct 24, 2011 at 22:33

Karoly Horvath

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Pardoner Over a year ago

Thanks yi_H. My problem was that "$SITE = $SITENAME;" in not correct. I needed to remove the "$" from "$SITES"

glenn jackman Over a year ago

@Pardoner, you also cannot have spaces around the = -- this is fundamental to sh syntax.

Amir Afghani · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-24 22:36:53Z

function newsite { SITE=$1; if [ -z "$1" ] then echo 'Please give the site a name'; read = SITENAME; $SITE = $SITENAME; fi git clone git://mydomain/site_template.git $SITE echo "New site has been created called: \"$SITE\"." rm -rf $SITE"/.git"; rm $SITE"/README.txt"; return 0 }

Also, how would I check to see if the repo was successfully cloned before I remove anything?

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