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Greetings; 

A bash script that has worked most of a decade now refuses.

For instance, assume that var InMail is = "gene", and can be echoed from 
the command line using $InMail like this.
gene@coyote:~$ echo $InMail
gene
But I'll be switched if I can get a result from a line of code resembling 
this from the command line while attempting to troubleshoot a 110 line 
bash script: which asks "if test [${InMail} = "gene"]
			  then
				-----
			 elif (another name)
				yadda yadda

gene@coyote:~$ echo `test [${InMail} = "gene"]`

All I get is the linefeed.  Obviously I'm losing it, so how do I 
translate and get usefull output for troubleshooting?


Thanks bashers;

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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bash help please Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-10 04:50 +0200
  Re: bash help please Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 05:10 +0200
    Re: bash help please Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-10 06:40 +0200
  Re: bash help please David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-10 06:00 +0200
    Re: bash help please Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-10 07:10 +0200
      Re: bash help please David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-10 07:40 +0200
        Re: bash help please Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-10 08:40 +0200
  Re: bash help please David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-06-10 06:10 +0200
    Re: bash help please Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-10 07:10 +0200
      Re: bash help please David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-06-11 05:50 +0200
  Re: bash help please <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-06-10 09:10 +0200

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