12-02-2008
issues with a condition in a while loop
Hi,
I am facing issues with test condition. I had a compound condition to write for both if and while,
In one of the texts i referred, with a korn shell we can write compound statements like: [[condition1 || condition 2 ]], however this doesn't worked for me. For example:
if [[ "$go_2_it" == "Y" || "$go_2_it" == "y" ]] doesn't works, but
if [ "$go_2_it" = "Y" ] || [ "$go_2_it" = "y" ] worked.
Now, similarly in a while loop I have something like,
while [[ "$go_2_it" != "Y" || "$go_2_it"t != "y" || "$go_2_it" != "N" || "$go_2_it" != "n" ]] or
while [ "$go_2_it" != "Y" ] || [ "$go_2_it" != "y" ] || [ "$go_2_it" != "N" ] || [ "$go_2_it" != "n" ]
None of the above works, do not understand why.
Also, if anybody can suggest whats [[ ]], and does it behaves differently than []. In the text, I referred, it says [[]] is for korn and [] is for bash. I am working with korn shell, but [[]] doesn't help me.
Thanks
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