On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 09:30 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 15:48 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote: > > > Okay, I'm confused. How would bash interpret this line? > > > > > > [ "`isthislinux`" = "LINUX" ] && ulimit -S -n 65536 > Shouldn't the operator above be == No, '=' is "test"'s POSIX/ISO/IEEE-standardized string comparison operator (c.f. man test). '==' is a bash-specific, non-standardized extension to "test". /bin/sh scripts should not use '=='. Ralf
