Chet Ramey wrote:
Note that [[ and [ return different results when the vars are unquoted.
Yes. There are two differences.
First, the operands in [[ do not undergo all word expansions. The
arguments to [, since it's a builtin, do. That doesn't really matter
to this example, but it's worth no
Linda Walsh wrote:
> But then I tested equality on the strings and that's the confusing
> part. I have an idea of what's going on but boy do string compares look
> confused. They perform same on cygwin
> (bashv=3.2.49(22)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)) and Suse11.1:
> (bashv=3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-
Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:45:39AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
I had a var 'c' set to (no quotes in the var): 'C\windows\system32'
How did you assign this value? Did you read it from a file? Did you
type a specific bash command?
--
I typed it in at the prompt as:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Assuming the first part was supposed to be var='"*"' ...
>
yup
>
> The bash command [[ \* = $var ]] returns true if $var contains a glob
> pattern against which a literal asterisk * can be matched. (By the way,
> you don't need the \ there
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:36:42PM +0300, Pierre Gaston wrote:
> Thanks, I agree with that, I'm sorry I should have been more explicit,
> what was not clear to me was where this special role of the \ is explained,
> Because if you use literals [[ something = \* ]] is the same as [[
> something = "
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:45:39AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I was scripting and fixing some permissions in Win,
> and had a var 'c' set to (no quotes in the var): 'C\windows\system32'
How did you assign this value? Did you read it from a file? Did you
type a specific bash command?
> # ech
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I was scripting and fixing some permissions in Win,
> and had a var 'c' set to (no quotes in the var): 'C\windows\system32'
> I first bumped into this using the printf -v var "%q" feature, where
> I expected it to doublequote the back slash
I was scripting and fixing some permissions in Win,
and had a var 'c' set to (no quotes in the var): 'C\windows\system32'
# echo $v |hexdump -C
43 3a 5c 77 69 6e 64 6f 77 73 5c 73 79 73 74 65 |C:\windows\syste|
0010 6d 33 32 0a |m32.|
