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Re: [PATCH] Fix problematic ']'

From
THTimo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 23, 2007, 20:58 UTC
Message-ID
<20070723235835.36b6d87a.tihirvon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<200707232236.21389.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> wrote:
> Not all shells grok a closing ']' of the shell '[' command without
> surrounding space.

That's one good reason to use test instead of /usr/bin/[ hack (yes it has been a shell built-in for a long time). [ is just like test but expects ] as last parameter and ignores it. Very ugly IMO.

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Message 3 of 5 in “Fix problematic ']'”
  1. Fix problematic ']'Johannes Sixt, Jul 23, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2007
  3. Timo HirvonenJul 23, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2007
  5. rebase -i: exchange all "if [ .. ]" by "if test .."Johannes Schindelin, Jul 24, 2007

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