From: Frank Gallacher <franxg@gmail.com>
To: "Kusalananda Kähäri" <andreas.kahari@abc.se>
Cc: "zsh-users@zsh.org" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: SUMMARY Re: Use of == in functions
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:33:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB3305C8313024AD675D6AC889F23A0@DM6PR13MB3305.namprd13.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200112100906.GA95942@pooh.prefix.duckdns.org>
On 12/1/20, 9:09 pm, "Kusalananda Kähäri" <andreas.kahari@abc.se> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 07:34:02PM +1100, Frank Gallacher wrote:
> I am converting my functions from bash to zsh, when I do something like:
>
>
> ciao.old () {
> if [ $# == 0 ]
> then
> PARM="-h"
> else
> PARM=$*
> fi
>
>
> I get an error like:
>
> % ciao.old
> ciao.old:8: = not found
>
>
> Using the old FORTRAN syntax, Replacing == with -eq fixes the problem; is this a bug, or just being tricky???
>
> TIA, Frankie G.
== within [[ ]]
= within [ ]
... just like in bash (but bash allows its built in test/[ utility to
understand == too)
Thanx Andreas,
(I stand corrected!)
Frank C.Gallacher
(franxg@gmail.com)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-12 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-12 8:34 Frank Gallacher
2020-01-12 10:09 ` Kusalananda Kähäri
2020-01-12 10:33 ` Frank Gallacher [this message]
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2020-01-12 12:03 ` Stephane Chazelas
2020-01-12 13:58 ` Daniel Shahaf
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