Re: Comparison failure

[Jan Schampera]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> Dave Rutherford wrote:
> 
>> Now, "[[" isn't very well documented, so I tend not to use it,
> 
> I'm always interested in suggestions for improving the bash documentation.
> Can you tell me what's unclear about the existing description of
> `[['?
> 
> Chet
> 

The documentation is complete. What some people always seem to forget
is, that it's a reference, not a tutorial. You can't start to learn from
the documentation.

IMHO the job of the Bash documentation is to tell that "[[ ]]" exists,
its working prionciple, and its differences to "[". But its job is not
to tell *why* it exists.

So, if the Bash documentation (mainly talking about the manpage here) is
intended to be used as a reference, then it's definitely complete. When
you know what you're searching for, you find it within a minute in 95%
of the cases.

J.