On 6/10/11 11:44 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> As a work around, I can use eval or the builtin test, but my question is
> this: Is this a bug or is there a reason that it should work for arithmetic
> but not for the test [[ operator?
It's not a bug. The (( command is syntactic sugar: (( ...)) is exactly
the same as let "...", with the expansions and evaluation ordering that
implies.
The [[ compound command is part of the shell language, and the operators
must be available to the parser when the command is read.
Chet
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