Toralf Förster wrote:
Bash Version: 3.2 Patch Level: 33 Release Status: releaseDescription: I'm wondering why in the example (see below) the right side is prefixed with a '\' wheras the left side is unchanged. Repeat-By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo "1 2 3 4" | while read a b c d; do [[ "$a" = "$b" || "$a" = "$c" || "$a" = "$d" ]] && echo oops; done + read a b c d + echo '1 2 3 4' + [[ 1 = \2 ]] + [[ 1 = \3 ]] + [[ 1 = \4 ]] + read a b c d ++ echo -ne '\033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~\007'
Because the ==/!=/= operators are defined to match the rhs as a pattern unless it's quoted. You quoted the original string, and the `set -x' output is supposed to be re-usable as input, so the trace output is quoted appropriately. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
