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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Is there any difference in bash shell in [ .. ] and [[ .. ]] ? Post 302211045 by alex_5161 on Wednesday 2nd of July 2008 01:46:45 PM
Old 07-02-2008
Is there any difference in bash shell in [ .. ] and [[ .. ]] ?

Could someone tell me if there is any difference in using square brackets single or doubled pair?

So, do those two some how could be treted by shell differently:
Code:
if [ <condition> ] ; then <statements;> else <statements;> fi

and
Code:
if [[ <condition> ]] ; then <statements;> else <statements;> fi

Maybe any one could provide with any additional shell usage compare to another?

Thank you,
Alex
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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