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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AIX UNIX (kshell) to Linux Shell Script Migration. Post 302906903 by bakunin on Tuesday 24th of June 2014 10:18:28 AM
Old 06-24-2014
So, i take it, this is because "[" is a shell builtin. (Which it is indeed - i had the wrong impression that "[" is external and "[[" is the builtin, but i learned otherwise through experiment. In fact "[" is a builtin and "[[" is a reserved word, according to my system shell on AIX, a ksh88.)

This seems to be in line with the following analogous lines, where "x" and "$x" can be used interchangeably:

Code:
x=5 ; let x=x+1
x=5 ; let "x = x + 1"
x=5 ; (( x += 1 ))
x=5 ; echo $(( x ))

I wonder how the parsing process of the ksh works so that this is only the case for integers (or - for the shell obviously being the same - strings which evaluate to integers). One would think that variables either get expanded or not, but it would not depend on their content if they are.

bakunin
 

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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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