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Re: /bin/sh diversions



[Pierre Habouzit]
>   the 3 biggest problems I've seen are:
> 
>   * [[ for test, trivial: add it as a test alias, and also check for ]]
>     termination in the test.c builtin.

Ummm, [[ is not the same as [.  (If they were the same, there would
have been no need to invent [[.)  They behave quite differently with
regard to argument quoting.  Try this in bash:

  unset foo
  [ -n $foo ] && echo foo is non-empty
  [[ -n $foo ]] && echo foo is non-empty

As you can see, only the second one works.
-- 
Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/

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