> > 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 Thank you everyone for your help again. BTW, is there a bash email list? If not, is there a need for one? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.