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Re: zsh handling of non-standard if-evaluations

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: zsh handling of non-standard if-evaluations
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:56:49 +0000
In-reply-to: Message from Daniel Qarras <dqarras@xxxxxxxxx> of "Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:59:31 PST." <20070127125931.56756.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Daniel Qarras wrote:
> on a system with a couple of proprietary applications I noticed that
> the scripts provided with the applications contain a non-standard
> if-evaluations that seems to work under bash (default shell on those
> systems) but not under zsh. Do you see worth to mimic bash here? The
> offending case is:
> 
> if [ "$VAR" == "VAL" ]
> 
> i.e., a double "==" instead of plain "=". This is with zsh-4.2.6.

That ought to work; can you send some explicit code with it failing?

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References:
- zsh handling of non-standard if-evaluations
  - From: Daniel Qarras

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