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Article #25Re: Questions/bugs.
From: Jean-Francois Lamy
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1989 03:33
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1989 03:33
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In article <8906200300.AA00751@aurel.caltech.edu> bfox@aurel.caltech.edu writes: > - Why does > if [ "$prompt" == "" ] ; then > produce "[: too many arguments" if prompt is not defined? > >Because Bash is a Bourne syntax shell, and the `[' command needs to be >written with only one `=', like: May I kindly suggest something like "[: '==' illegal operator" (I did say I was editing my .cshrc :-). And to say I'm considering switching to bash because I spend too much time writing sh scripts. Sigh. Jean-Francois Lamy lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
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Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.ai.toronto.edu!lamy From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) Subject: Re: Questions/bugs. Message-ID: <89Jun19.233317edt.11745@neat.ai.toronto.edu> Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto References: <89Jun19.205313edt.11770@neat.ai.toronto.edu> Distribution: gnu Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 23:33:13 EDT