choice of control operators in scripts

[Goetz Bock]

On Mon, May 12 '08 at 22:51, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > If you fell paranoid today ... add x"" ...
> >
> > [ x"$foo" = x"bar" ]
> 
> I have no experience of shells that are _so_ buggy.  Do you mean this:
> 
> [ x-n = xbar ]
> 

with foo=-n the shell would expand
    [ "$foo" = "bar" ] 
to
    [ -n = bar ]

what [ (aka test) will not be able to parse. With
    [ x"$foo" = x"bar" ]
the shell will generate
    [ x-n = xbar ]

what [ (aka test) can parse.

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