RE: wrong logical evaluation of expressions involving true or falsecommands

'help test' says that an expression consisting of a single string is an alias for "-n STRING" which is "true if the string is not empty." So, [ false -a false ] and [ false ] are true because "false" is a non-empty string. [ "" ] is false. You probably just want 'true && false' without the [.

RE: bash does not handle escape sequences for inserted paramaters to for

This will work $ eval "for i in $(echo a b\\ c); do echo \"\$i\"; done" a b c http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2007-07/msg00011.html ___ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash