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Here is the piece of code that gives the problem:

if [ " ls -l ~/sysbackups | wc -l " -gt 5]

What to do?

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You have to use :

if [ `ls -l  ~/sysbackups | wc -l` -gt 5 ];then
    echo XXXXX
fi;
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