Re: Question about testing with variable operators

[Jan Schampera]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Steven W. Orr" <address@hidden> 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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