Re: Stupid bash question

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> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 09:30 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 15:48 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
>
>> > > Okay, I'm confused.  How would bash interpret this line?
>> > >
>> > > [ "`isthislinux`" = "LINUX" ] && ulimit -S -n 65536
>> Shouldn't the operator above be ==
>
> No, '=' is "test"'s POSIX/ISO/IEEE-standardized string comparison
> operator (c.f. man test).
>
> '==' is a bash-specific, non-standardized extension to "test".
> /bin/sh scripts should not use '=='.
>
> Ralf

Thank you everyone for your help again.

BTW, is there a bash email list?  If not, is there a need for one?




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