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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: kernel-2.eclass Prefix support
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 09:07:36
Message-Id: 575D264D.6050203@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: kernel-2.eclass Prefix support by Benda Xu
1 On 06/12/2016 02:02 AM, Benda Xu wrote:
2 > Hi Ulrich,
3 >
4 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> writes:
5 >
6 >>> I have added EPREFIX logics for EAPI<3 and improved the trailing
7 >>> slashes and quotes.
8 >>
9 >>> - [[ -f ${ROOT}/usr/include/linux/autoconf.h ]] \
10 >>> + [[ -f "${EROOT}"usr/include/linux/autoconf.h ]] \
11 >>
12 >> Inside [[ ]] quotes are generally not needed. (There are several other
13 >> instances of this.)
14 >
15 > I thought so too, but with an experiment:
16 >
17 > bash --version
18 > GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
19 >
20 > bash -l
21 > $ [[ -f a b ]] && echo hi
22 > bash: syntax error in conditional expression
23 > bash: syntax error near `b'
24 > $ [[ -f "a b" ]] && echo hi
25 > hi
26 >
27 > So it seems that [[ ]] does need quotes.
28
29 However, it behaves differently when you have a variable with "a b" as
30 its content.
31
32 foo="a b"
33 [[ -f ${foo} ]] && echo hi
34 --
35 Thanks,
36 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: kernel-2.eclass Prefix support Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>