Corinna Vinschen wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 1:04 PM: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:37:10PM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: >> BTW: It does also not know the "[ ]" syntax for a built-in test, you >> always have to use "test": >> >> if test -f /etc/hosts; then >> echo "/etc/hosts exist!" >> fi > > Beep. Wrong. It knows [ ] > > Corinna > >> and you cannot combine export with an assignment, you have to write >> separate statements: >> >> VARIABLE=test >> export VARIABLE > > Beep. Wrong, too. export var=value is a vaild bourne shell syntax. > > Corinna
Did that change at some point? I remember having really big problems writing scripts running on a on Solaris, Linux and Cygwin some years ago <g> and IIRC it was basically because of ash at that time ... Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
