On 03/08/2017 11:43 PM, Pétùr wrote:
> Out of curiosity, I look the difference between my manually modified
> thunderbird startup script and your.
>
> Diff gives me:
>
> # diff thunderbird thunderbird-old
Please use "diff -u" in the future.
> 197c197
> < { [ -d "${TB_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ] || [ -L "${TB_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ]; } &&
> \
> ---
>> { [ -d "${TB_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ] || [ -L "${TB_PROFILE_FOLDER}" ]; } &&
>> \
>
> I had two extra spaces after "&& \".
Most likely it was interpreted as "\ ", i.e. it escaped a white space. Escaping
in scripting languages can be very tricky which is why I *always* test such
statements first before adding them to a script. You shouldn't trust your
intuition in such cases, but you actually need to verify your changes.
Adrian
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