On 06/12/2016 02:02 AM, Benda Xu wrote: > Hi Ulrich, > > Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> writes: > >>> I have added EPREFIX logics for EAPI<3 and improved the trailing >>> slashes and quotes. >> >>> - [[ -f ${ROOT}/usr/include/linux/autoconf.h ]] \ >>> + [[ -f "${EROOT}"usr/include/linux/autoconf.h ]] \ >> >> Inside [[ ]] quotes are generally not needed. (There are several other >> instances of this.) > > I thought so too, but with an experiment: > > bash --version > GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) > > bash -l > $ [[ -f a b ]] && echo hi > bash: syntax error in conditional expression > bash: syntax error near `b' > $ [[ -f "a b" ]] && echo hi > hi > > So it seems that [[ ]] does need quotes.
However, it behaves differently when you have a variable with "a b" as its content. foo="a b" [[ -f ${foo} ]] && echo hi -- Thanks, Zac