Re: RFE: make [[ compatible with [ 'Option'?

[Clark J. Wang]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> wrote:

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> Greg Wooledge wrote:
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>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:53:21AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
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>>> if [ ! -e $d/S??sshd ]; then echo "sshd not enabled"; fi
>>>
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>> That will fail quite colorfully if the glob matches multiple files.
>> (Also, "$d" should be quoted.)
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> If, in 30 years of unix experience, I'd ever seen multiple matches for
> the above pattern, I would be concerned...
>

I often use [[ ]] like this:

if [[ $filename = *.log ]]; then echo ...; fi

You'll often see multiple matches for the above pattern. :)


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Clark J. Wang