Bob Proulx wrote:
Of course that makes sense for the "==" and "!=" cases. But is that true even for the "=" case? For the "=" case I thought it was "STRING1 = STRING2" and not "STRING = PATTERN".
`=' and `==' are always equivalent. When used in the test/[ command, they match strings. In the [[ conditional command, they match patterns. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/