On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:28:46AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 09 March 2008, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> > If one of the variables expands to nothing, the test(1) calls see the
> > wrong syntax. It is good shell praxis to either use
> >
> >     [ "$FOO" = "bar" ]
>
> for random variables, yes.  for builtins that expand to numbers, no.

Ok, right. Will rework.

> >     [ x$FOO = xbar ]
>
> which breaks if FOO contains whitespace.

That's why I've chosen the other variant.

> > here; this patch changes the file to use the first variant.
>
> i dont see any point since all the variables in question are numeric in nature

Hmm, I was a little bit fast, the issue I was trying to fix is still
there; corrected patch follows.

Robert
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