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Re: Question about testing with variable operators


From: Jan Schampera
Subject: Re: Question about testing with variable operators
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 08:44:01 +0200
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
"Steven W. Orr" <steveo@syslang.net> writes:

As a work around, I can use eval or the builtin test, but my question is
this: Is this a bug or is there a reason that it should work for
arithmetic but not for the test [[ operator?

[[ is a reserved word like if, which triggers special parsing rules, so
you cannot use it like this.

However, it should work for the good ol' test command ([ ... ])


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