On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 01:09 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007, George Shapovalov wrote:
> > Tuesday, 2. October 2007, Roy Marples Ви написали:
> > > And here it is
> >
> > - if [[ "${FORTRANC}" = "gfortran" ]]; then
> > + if [ "${FORTRANC}" = "gfortran" ]; then
> >
> > You know, it is funny to see these lines after all those cries about how [
> > is evil and we should really never ever use it but rather always use [[
> > form :).
> >
> > Oh, btw, does the compliant sh correctly process the most cited
> > composition? : [ -n $foo ] && [ -z $foo ] && echo "huh?"
> > (straight from devmanual, the primary reason why [ is considered bad)
>
> [...] will crap a brick if foo expands to multiple arguments
Only if unquoted.
> which is why
> [[...]] is preferred ... it'll do the sane thing and work correctly
Which encourages developers not to quote in my view.
Roy
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