How to fix command not found in Linux shell scripting [duplicate]

Question

I have a Linux shell script with the below code

#! /bin/bash
echo $BASH
name = Mark
echo $name

When I run the script, I'm getting an error:

./my_script.sh: line 3: =: command not found

What am I doing wrong?

Note: I'm using Kali Linux.

Answer 1

In shell, you need to write:

echo $BASH
name=Mark
echo $name

Note there are no spaces around = when setting a variable. The shell usually interprets name = Mark as calling the command name with arguments =and Mark, hardly what you intend. It also seems that name somehow expands to nothing (an alias?), thus the confusing message about command =.