* Re: Use of == in functions
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@ 2020-01-12 11:21 ` Stephane Chazelas
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From: Stephane Chazelas @ 2020-01-12 11:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
2020-01-12 11:09:06 +0100, Kusalananda Kähäri:
[...]
> == within [[ ]]
> = within [ ]
>
> ... just like in bash (but bash allows its built in test/[ utility to
> understand == too)
[...]
zsh's [ builtin also supports == as an alias of = (like its [[
]] construct also supports == as an alias of =), but in zsh,
=cmd is an operator that expands to the path of the cmd command,
$ echo =ls
/usr/bin/ls
so you would need:
[ a '==' b ]
(or disable the =cmd feature with set +o equals) if for some
reason you wanted to use the non-standard == in place of =.
Just like you need
[ a '=~' regex ]
for regex matching.
And
[ a '<' b ]
to compare strings lexically as < is also a redirection
operator.
Now, as none of <, ==, =~ are standard [ operators (so sh
compatibility is no longer a good reason to use the "["
command), you might as well use the ksh-style [[...]] construct
which doesn't have this kind of issue:
[[ a =~ b ]], [[ a < b ]], [[ a == b ]] are all fine (but then
again, there's no need to double the =. == is an operator that
is needed in languages where there's a need to disambiguate
between assignment and equality comparison, but inside [[...]]
(as opposed to ((...)) for instance), there's no assignment)
--
Stephane
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