On 9/6/22 9:57 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:56:12PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
Ah, thanks! May I suggest that adding this information as a note in
the manpage would be very helpful?
The man page says, in the `test' description:
"Each operator and operand must be a
On 9/6/22 1:51 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:03:20AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Sep 05 2022, Julian Gilbey wrote:
neither did using \(
instead of (, and neither did putting spaces around the parentheses.
You need to do both.
Ah, thanks! May I suggest that
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:56:12PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Ah, thanks! May I suggest that adding this information as a note in
> > > the manpage would be very helpful?
> >
> > The man page says, in the `test' description:
> >
> > "Each operator and operand must be a separate
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 09:25:36AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 9/6/22 1:51 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:03:20AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > On Sep 05 2022, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > >
> > > > neither did using \(
> > > > instead of (, and neither did putting
On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 11:04:41PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Julian Gilbey writes:
> > Upgrading to bash 5.2.0(1)-rc2 did not help, neither did using \(
> > instead of (, and neither did putting spaces around the parentheses.
>
> It's ugly. The first point is that ( and ) are special
On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 06:05:04PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 09:55:29PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > if [ ("$1" = "yes" -o "$1" = "YES") -a ("$2" = "red" -o "$2" = "RED") ]
>
> You're doing it wrong. The parentheses have to be quoted, and separate.
>
> [ "(" "$1"
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:03:20AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Sep 05 2022, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> > neither did using \(
> > instead of (, and neither did putting spaces around the parentheses.
>
> You need to do both.
Ah, thanks! May I suggest that adding this information as a note
Julian Gilbey writes:
> Upgrading to bash 5.2.0(1)-rc2 did not help, neither did using \(
> instead of (, and neither did putting spaces around the parentheses.
It's ugly. The first point is that ( and ) are special characters and
if unquoted are isolated tokens that have special syntax. So in
On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 09:55:29PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> if [ ("$1" = "yes" -o "$1" = "YES") -a ("$2" = "red" -o "$2" = "RED") ]
You're doing it wrong. The parentheses have to be quoted, and separate.
[ "(" "$1" = yes" -o "$1" = YES" ")" -a ... ]
I'd strongly recommend that you DON'T
On Sep 05 2022, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> neither did using \(
> instead of (, and neither did putting spaces around the parentheses.
You need to do both.
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