Re: problem with xml tests

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:00:51PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
> Although, I seem to recall that the most portable form is:
>
> if test "$foo" = "bar"; then
>
> The [ ] implies test, but it seems like I heard that some shells don't
> understand the brackets.

The only problem with [ ] I'm aware of is that you can't use it inside
an autoconf script because M4 has laid claim to the brackets. In a
plain shell script, it should be perfectly safe.

zw

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