On Tuesday 01 November 2005 19:24, Uli Fahrenberg wrote:
> Allard Welter, Nov 1, 17:02 +0100:

[...]

> > This looks like a bash (non-)thingy Have you checked the startup
> > scripts for the occurrence of "[: ==" ? I can't recal a colon being
> > part of any conditional - perhaps a typo?
>
> Without additional information it is unlikely anybody can help you
> with this. It's like the needle-in-a-haystack problem.
>
> But I believe Allard is wrong above; IIRC this error is typically
> caused by a line like
>
>       [ $X == blah ] && do_something
>
> which in case $X is empty becomes
>
>       [  == blah ] ...
>
> and then bash complains that the [ is followed by an == operator.

Yes, this makes sense - Bash is trying to be grammatically correct. 
Thanks Uli.
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