Bash Scripting - Conditionals - Error: Command not found

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#1

Could you please help me with an error I get when doing this exercise?

This is my code:

#!/bin/bash
first_greeting="Nice to meet you!"
later_greeting="How are you?"
greeting_occasion=0
if [ $greeting_occasion -lt 1 ] 
then 
  echo $first_greeting
else
  echo $later_greeting
fi

And this is the results in the terminal:

$./script.sh
$./script.sh: line 5: [1: command not found
How are you?

So despite the greeting occasion is zero the output is still the later greeting and I just can’t understand why.

#2

You error message doesn’t match your code, you ran something else.

#3

Thanks! I’ve rerun my code and it works, don’t know what I’d run the first time.

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#4

Not sure if that is necessary, but I have changed if condition from
if [ $greeting_occasion -lt 1 ]
to
if [ “$greeting_occasion” -lt “1” ] (added “”)
and the error disappeared.