Use quotes around it, so you can avoid variable expansion in shell.
What is that, pamu?
Variable expansion will be done by the shell in any case (in case of double-quotes). The double-quotes are to retain the embedded spaces and/or to tell the shell that the parameter exists (in case of null strings) in case of [..] construct.
You don't require the quotes in case [[..]] construct (unless you are testing strings as is).
Also, in the [[..]], globbing is not done.
In ksh88,
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Hi
First apologies if this has been raised before.
I've got the following in a ksh script:
if ]
For some reason this does not work. But if I remove the double square brackets to:
if
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