Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:58:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Arindam <arindam.mukerjee@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Korn Shell [[ ... ]] operator Message-ID: <20060925155839.GF73717@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <d85a51ff0609250831x76b9ff15j7c1c2d3e62976802@mail.gmail.com> References: <d85a51ff0609250831x76b9ff15j7c1c2d3e62976802@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 25), Arindam said:
> I know csh is the shell of choice on FreeBSD. But I have this question
> on Korn Shell and it would be great if somebody could explain.
>
> Can someone tell me a little more about the Korn Shell [[ ... ]]
> double-brackets construct used for comparing string expressions. How
> does it differe from the standard [ ... ] single brackets.
Different comparison operators, basically, and faster than [ because it
doesn't have to fork /bin/[ .
> You could tell me to RTFM but I haven't gleaned enough clarity from
> such efforts already expended.
They're all documented in the manpage ("ksh93" for the shells/ksh93
ports), under Conditional Expressions. Compare them with the "test"
manpage. It looks like FreeBSD's test command does most of what ksh
does, except for the wildcard matching of =, which is handy but can be
emulated with a case statement :)
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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