<![CDATA[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]]>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.

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/116489102101439890https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.data.coop/users/reynir/statuses/116489102101439890Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:10:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:03:01 GMT]]>@Foritus Yupp. I'm pretty sure I'm doing this one at least once for every if I write. 🤦

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.mei-home.net/users/mmeier/statuses/116489072256494580https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.mei-home.net/users/mmeier/statuses/116489072256494580Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:03:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:45:36 GMT]]>@Foritus a language that deliberately makes conditionals as difficult as possible.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/helenanne/statuses/116489003762852983https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.scot/users/helenanne/statuses/116489003762852983Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:45:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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 on Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:26:06 GMT]]>@Foritus the only good reason to use it as a scripting language is because that’s the default shell almost everywhere ^^’

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