Chet Ramey wrote: > 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.
Ah..., so the real underlying issue was actually the use of [[ ... ]] instead of [ ... ] which had escaped my attention and changed the meaning. The trace output wouldn't have quoted the right hand side parts if [ ... ] had been used. Gotcha. Thanks Bob
