Today in "things I hate about bash" I found out that it is syntactically meaningful to have a space between your square braces and the operands inside

[foritus@toot.dusepo.co.uk]

Today in "things I hate about bash" I found out that it is syntactically meaningful to have a space between your square braces and the operands inside

if [["foo" != "bar"]]; then echo "yay"; fi
# error, executable "foo" not found.
if [[ "foo" != "bar" ]]; then echo "yay" fi
# yay

I hate bash.

[hypha@cafe.mycelium.locahlo.st]

@Foritus the only good reason to use it as a scripting language is because that’s the default shell almost everywhere ^^’

[helenanne@mastodon.scot]

@Foritus a language that deliberately makes conditionals as difficult as possible.

[mmeier@social.mei-home.net]

@Foritus Yupp. I'm pretty sure I'm doing this one at least once for every if I write.

[reynir@social.data.coop]

@Foritus I think it goes back to bourne shell and [ foo = bar ] test "alias"