From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problematic ']'
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:58:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070723235835.36b6d87a.tihirvon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707232236.21389.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> wrote:
> Not all shells grok a closing ']' of the shell '[' command without
> surrounding space.
That's one good reason to use test instead of /usr/bin/[ hack (yes it
has been a shell built-in for a long time). [ is just like test but
expects ] as last parameter and ignores it. Very ugly IMO.
--
http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-23 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-23 20:36 [PATCH] Fix problematic ']' Johannes Sixt
2007-07-23 20:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-23 20:58 ` Timo Hirvonen [this message]
2007-07-24 2:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-24 2:18 ` [PATCH] rebase -i: exchange all "if [ .. ]" by "if test .." Johannes Schindelin
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