Re: correct quoting for variables in bash scripts?

From	Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: correct quoting for variables in bash scripts?
Date	2022-10-19 12:04 +0200
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References	(1 earlier) <eli$2210171923@qaz.wtf> <ygailkh8om8.fsf@akutech.de> <tim4kr$3nq91$1@dont-email.me> <ygaedv58ewi.fsf@akutech.de> <timcia$3o485$1@dont-email.me>

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* Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
| > But the original theory (first quotation above) why [[ did not throw an
| > error was that "... ([[) is explicitly a shell built-in, so it can
| > recognize empty strings without help."
>
| [[ is not a "shell builtin", it is a "shell keyword". That makes a
| difference.
--<snip-snip>--

Thanks, very informative!

R'

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