Script not working

Hi,

I have created one of the script however its else part is not working for me, any suggestion?

According to the else part it should give “Strings are not equal.” but it is always giving me “Strings are equal.” even the value in both the files are different.

#!/bin/bash

vmware-toolbox-cmd -v > /tmp/output.txt

cat /tmp/output.txt | sed “s/.//g” > /tmp/output1.txt

head -c 10 /tmp/output1.txt > /tmp/output10.txt

systemctl restart vmtoolsd.service

vmware-toolbox-cmd -v > /tmp/output2.txt

cat /tmp/output2.txt | sed “s/.//g” > /tmp/output3.txt

head -c 10 /tmp/output3.txt > /tmp/output11.txt

VALUE= cat /tmp/output10.txt
VALUE1= cat /tmp/output11.txt

if [[ “$VALUE” -eq “$VALUE1” ]]; then

echo "Strings are equal."
else
echo "Strings are not equal."
fi