Illogical script

English Programming/Scripting
1

Could someone please point out why this bash script fails in the if-fi section? I must be getting thick in the head.

#!/bin/bash

echo -e “Is the album you want to play listed here (y/n)?”

read -s -n1 -p “Hit a key " keypress
echo; echo “Keypress was “”$keypress””."

if $keypress=“y” ]; then

    echo -e "RESULT YES "
read word

fi
echo -e "RESULT NO "
read word
cd $word*
ls

Pressing “y”…

Is the album you want to play listed here (y/n)?
Hit a key
Keypress was “y”.
RESULT YES

Pressing “n”…

Is the album you want to play listed here (y/n)?
Hit a key
Keypress was “n”.
RESULT YES

2

You’re missing spaces before and after “=”.
I would use that form :

if  "$keypress" == "y" ]; then
3

Thank you very much.