Bash syntax error: “[[: not found” [duplicate]

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If your script is executable and you are executing it like ./getconfig.sh, the first line of your script needs to be:

#!/bin/bash

Without that shebang line, your script will be interpreted by sh which doesn’t understand [[ in if statements.

Otherwise, you should run your script like bash getconfig.sh, not sh getconfig.sh. Even if your default shell is bash, scripts run with sh will use a reduced set of bash’s features, in order to be more compliant with the POSIX standard. [[ is one of the features that is disabled.

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