Re: Quoting and string comparison

2018-02-08 Thread Jaan Vajakas
Stupid me, everything makes sense now. Thanks for explaining and sorry for the trouble! 2018-02-08 19:56 GMT+01:00 Ilkka Virta : > On 8.2. 15:05, Jaan Vajakas wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I noticed a weird behavior. Is it a bug? >> >> Namely, why does >> >

Re: Quoting and string comparison

2018-02-08 Thread Jaan Vajakas
So should Bash report a syntax error? 2018-02-08 15:24 GMT+01:00 Clark Wang : > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Jaan Vajakas > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I noticed a weird behavior. Is it a bug? >> >> Namely, why does >> >> echo "$(for f in

Quoting and string comparison

2018-02-08 Thread Jaan Vajakas
Hi! I noticed a weird behavior. Is it a bug? Namely, why does echo "$(for f in a b c; do if [[ \"$f\" > b ]]; then echo "$f > b"; else echo "$f <= b"; fi; done)" output a <= b b > b c > b ? I would have expected the same output as one of echo "$(for f in a b c; do if [[ "$f" > b ]]; then ech