GOTCHA in Ubuntu - broken shell

[Steven W. Orr]

On Friday, Sep 28th 2007 at 14:53 -0000, quoth Bill Sconce:

=>_______________________________________
=>Another example. This one is [was] my "favorite"; I think it was
=>the first one to bork on me. The error message was [is] so obscure
=>that for the past year I've lived with band-aiding each "if" 
=>statement one at a time, just to have something which works.
=>(One uses "if" statements much more frequently than slicing.)
=>In bash:
=>  $ if [ "${breakfast}" == "spamandeggs" ]; then
=>  >   echo "yummy"
=>  > fi
=>  yummy
=>  $ 
=>In dash:
=>  $ if [ "${breakfast}" == "spamandeggs" ]; then
=>  >   echo "yummy"
=>  > fi
=>  [: 11: ==: unexpected operator
=>  $ 
=>  
=>How ugly and unhelpful is that?  
=>
=>The band-aid, by the way, was that "=" instead of "==" works.
=>(And how ugly is THAT? And how do you explain that to a student?)

FYI, the correct operator is = and == is an extension of bash. == should 
not be used.

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