I'm going nowhere at the moment with this VERY simple bash script, can someone help please? All I need to do is check the value of one of the command line parameters and conditionally perform a task 1 #!/bin/bash 2 printf "Type = $6" 3 if [$6 == 'F'] 4 then 5 Do the task 6 fi 7 Do other tasks I keep getting: Type = Q line 3: [Q: Command not found Also, does someone have a 'simple' bash scripting resource they could point me to? I can find plenty of advanced scripting pages but founf nothing with the above example that worked. TIA Graham