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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String == isn't working in [[-test Post 302671803 by agama on Saturday 14th of July 2012 04:06:40 PM
Old 07-14-2012
The expression that is contained within double braces can take many forms, but the general syntax is one of

Code:
<operator> <string>

or
Code:
<operator> <filename>

or
Code:
<string> <operator> <pattern>

Because the strings and filenames do not need to be quoted, there is no way for the interpreter to determine whether xx is a string or a variable name that should be expanded. Thus, you must explicitly dereference the variables you wish to have expanded as you have done in your first working example.

This is different than in arithmetic expressions (( expression )) where the interpreter can assume that any string references are variable names to be evaluated as such.

You might want to read over the information here:
Bash Reference Manual
 

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