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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:05:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: [[ and [
From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: "Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
Cc: Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>, zsh-users@zsh.org
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On 7 March 2012 10:02, Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012, Mikael Magnusson wrote about "Re: [[ and [":
>> Incidentally, this is probably the most confusing error message ever,
>> % [ $foo == "" ]
>> zsh: = not found
>
> I see something slightly different. On zsh 4.3.15, with unset $foo, I
> get:
>
>        $ [ $foo == "" ]
>        zsh: parse error: condition expected: ==
>
> Which indeed is not very clear, but arguably not "the most confusing
> error message ever" ;-)

You need to not have done unsetopt equals to see the confusing one :).

-- 
Mikael Magnusson