twisted braces

twisted braces

[zzapper]

Hi,
I got into a twist recently with conditional braces ie if (( [[ and [

My problems were solved by using the single [.
I read in the doc that (( was no longer recommended?
>From my Bash days I seem to think [[ was required for substring matching?

Comments?

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Re: twisted braces

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jul 24,  7:46am, zzapper wrote:
}
} I got into a twist recently with conditional braces ie if (( [[ and [

(( ... )) is not for conditional expressions, it's for arithmetic.  It
happens that the results of arithmetic can be tested with "if" et al.,
but that's not its primary purpose.

} My problems were solved by using the single [.

That probably means you needed filename generation or another operation
that occurs for ordinary commands.

} I read in the doc that (( was no longer recommended?

Where?  Quote, please.  If true, that should be repaired.

} From my Bash days I seem to think [[ was required for substring matching?

[[ ... ]] is a true syntactic construct whereas [ ... ] is merely a
command (a synonym for "test ...").  Therefore the shell applies very
different rules inside [[ ... ]], one of which is that comparisons
use pattern matching and another of which is that filename generation
is not performed (so that glob patterns can be used for comparisons).

} Comments?

RTFM?

In particular, the sections "Shell Grammar" and "Conditional Expressions".