On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:18PM -0600, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > The -ne operator for [ in /bin/sh doesn't seem to work as in bash. > Also the bash behavior here is what matches /bin/[ most closely. > > $ /bin/sh > $ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then > > echo not root > > fi > [: -ne: unexpected operator > $ exit > $ echo $SHELL > /usr/local/bin/bash > [jeff...@dobby ~/src/mount-rsnap]$ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then > > echo not root > > fi > not root > > Does anyone have a recommendation of how to run this simple test in / > bin/sh
if [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]; then ... As to why your test isn't working as expected, rewrite your script to read: #!/bin/sh echo $UID and you'll discover that UID is a bash environmental variable. > and how to write tests reasonably portably? That's a different question, and merits a much longer discussion probably better had elsewhere. I'd suggest comp.unix.shell. -- George _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
