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Re: [PATCH] t7403-*.sh: Avoid use of the nonportable '==' operator

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 27, 2012, 06:53 UTC
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Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Some shells, including dash, do not support using the '==' string
> equality operator. This results in the failure of tests 7-12 with
> 'test' complaining of an "unexpected operator".

Thanks. You do not have to single-out dash. A shell script that uses "test $a == $b" is *buggy* and not conforming to POSIX.

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