07-13-2006
Are you sure it failed for the length? Did it give any other errors? I tried with two variables of length 2000 chars each and it worked fine.
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# echo $var2 $var1
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# if [[ "$var1" = "$var2" ]]; then
> echo equal
> fi
equal
EDIT--
The variables are appearing broken up in the post. They are really 1000 chars long each.
/EDIT
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