On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:37:47AM -0800, David Alban wrote:
> Of course, this would be O.K. I prefer the [[ ]] operator (found in
> ksh and bash 2.x) because it is smarter and more resistant to syntax
> errors that occur with [ ] if a variable is undefined. But
> certainly one can use [ ] and then double quote the variables
> within, as you have done.
AFAIK, it also doesn't fork a process as well, using [[ ]] the tests
are done internally to bash/ksh, and are thus much faster.
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