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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String == isn't working in [[-test Post 302672407 by 244an on Monday 16th of July 2012 10:21:46 AM
Old 07-16-2012
Thanks for your answer, it's kind of obvious if you think about it.
I have read the manual earlier but I misunderstood this part:
Quote:
[[...]]
[[ expression ]]
Return a status of 0 or 1 depending on the evaluation of the conditional expression expression. Expressions are composed of the primaries described below in Bash Conditional Expressions. Word splitting and filename expansion are not performed on the words between the ‘[[' and ‘]]'; tilde expansion, parameter and variable expansion, arithmetic expansion, command substitution, process substitution, and quote removal are performed. Conditional operators such as ‘-f' must be unquoted to be recognized as primaries.
I understood "parameter and variable expansion ... are performed" as that they are automatically expanded like it is for (( ... )) , my bad
 

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