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To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up 
In-Reply-To: Doug's (Doug@gorean.org) message
	dated Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:34:56.  <37BF37A0.769435B3@gorean.org> 
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From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>
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I understand that folks use X$foo becuase if $foo evaluates to -whatever
then there is a *chance* that test will misunderstand.

I gather the reason for using the X trick *and* the quotes is because there
might be some whitespace in there, too.

Given that "case" is a builtin and using "case" instead of "test" is both
faster, easier to read (less clutter), and supports mixed-case easier, I
prefer "case".  But I went down this road before.

H


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