Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:41:31 -0600 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: "mail.list freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bash versus sh test builtin Message-ID: <7813F00E-0F26-4127-B85F-444EA6B8B5A6@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <20090112030717.GA57874@dan.emsphone.com> References: <7740275E-77AA-45C1-B95E-C1F62D2AAB29@goldmark.org> <20090112030717.GA57874@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > UID=$(id -u) > if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then > echo not root > fi > > UID is not a variable set by /bin/sh, which is why the test fails. Ah. Thank you. I was, as you see, barking up the wrong tree. Thank you for setting me strait on this. Cheers, -j
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