From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (ZSH Workers Mailing List), gene@bear.com
Subject: Re: Is this really correct ?
Date: 10 Jun 1996 19:42:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigbuirlfmz.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gene@bear.com's message of Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:21:45 -0400
gene@bear.com (gene@bear.com) wrote:
>
>
> Hpux 9.05.
>
> % echo $ZSH_VERSION
> 2.6-beta20
> % a="-s"; if [ "$a" = "-s" ] ; then echo "yeh" ; fi
> %
>
> (if fails)
If $a is -s, then the test builtin probably tests for whether file '='
exists and has a size greater than zero :-). This works for me:
$ echo hi > =
$ a="-s"; if [ "$a" = "-s" ] ; then echo "yeh" ; fi
yeh
Thus, it may be an sh incompatibility, but not a bug. Unless the shell
is supposed to count the arguments first, and then use draw the
conclusions according to the argument values (in which case the middle
argument would recognized as two-operand =).
--
hniksic@srce.hr | Student of electrical engineering
hniksic@fly.cc.fer.hr | University of Zagreb, Croatia
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-10 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-10 17:21 gene
1996-06-10 17:42 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1996-06-10 18:17 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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