Error: =: command not found (Bash Script)

Question

I found a nifty little shell script that I wanted to use from this website here. I have followed everything step-by-step, but receive the following error when running this on my CentOS box. ``` ./deploy: line 3: =: command not found ``` Line 3 only contains... ``` $ERRORSTRING = "Error. Please make sure you've indicated correct parameters" ``` I've tried toying around with a bit, but don't understand why it won't accept the "=" character. Is there something wrong with the script, or is it merely something different in the way that my server processes the script?

Accepted Answer

"Devnulls" answer was correct -- I had to remove the spaces around the "=" and remove the "$" from that line as well. The end result was...

```
ERRORSTRING="Error. Please make sure you've indicated correct parameters"
```

I've upvoted Devnull and gniourf_gniourf's comments.

Thank you to all whom have assisted!

Error: =: command not found (Bash Script)

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