Re: A bug report: misperforming equality test

[Chet Ramey]

> Machine Type: i686-pc-cygwin
> 
> Bash Version: 2.05b
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
>    An arithmetic equality test misperforms in a script. (It works okay =
> on the command line.)

If you're using `sh' to run the script, you should be aware that `sh'
on cygwin is actually ash, and probably doesn't understand ((...)) as
the arithmetic operator.  It's most likely being parsed as two nested
subshells. 

Chet

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