Bash script error [: !=: unary operator expected

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Quotes!

if [ "$1" != -v ]; then

Otherwise, when $1 is completely empty, your test becomes:

[ != -v ]

instead of

[ "" != -v ]

…and != is not a unary operator (that is, one capable of taking only a single argument).

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