Re: [Bug] comparisson operator `[[` not working as expected

[Stephane Chazelas <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2022-06-20 15:32:32 -0300, Paulo Diovani:
[...]
> In version 5.9 the [[ ]] operator is behaving unexpectedly for the
> following case:
> 
> $ watch ls &
> $ [ $(jobs -l | wc -l) -gt 0 ] && echo jobs found || echo no jobs
> jobs found
> $ [[ $(jobs -l | wc -l) -gt 0 ]] && echo jobs found || echo no jobs
> no jobs
[...]

While I agree that looks like a bug (the output of jobs seems to
be empty when the command substitution is expanded inside
[[...]] or ((...)) or a[$(jobs)]=... at least in my tests), a
better approach here would be to use:

if (( $#jobstates > 0 )); then
  echo jobs found
else
  echo no jobs
fi

-- 
Stephane