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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: bourne shell query
Message-ID: <MEISSNER.90Sep6122432@osf.osf.org>
Date: 6 Sep 90 16:24:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU's message of 6 Sep 90 14:11:33 GMT

In article <1990Sep6.141133.3391@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) writes:

| In article <SCOTT.90Sep5124415@tab29.larc.nasa.gov>
| scott@tab29.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) writes:
| 
| >1) if [ "$1" = "$2" ]; then
| >     echo "Yeas!"
| >   else
| >     echo "No-way!"
| >   fi
| 
| What if $1 = '=' or '-t'?

The standard way of dealing with this is:

if [ x"$1" = x"$2" ]; then
	echo "Yeas!"
else
	echo "No-way!"
fi
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