Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:17:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions) Cc: un_x@anchorage.net Subject: Re: test Message-ID: <199705071517.RAA00837@CoDe.hu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970506221207.18627A-100000@aak.anchorage.net> from Steve Howe at "May 6, 97 10:17:43 pm"
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> if [ $1 != "-a" -a $1 != "-b" -a $1 != "-p" ]; then blah; blah; blah; fi
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> shouldn't test be able to handle this, for simple option checking?
> i think "test" gets confused and chokes because it thinks
> "-a", "-b", "-p" are "test" options.
>
> i doesn't seem like there is any way to "quote" out the options i'd like
> to test so that test doesn't think they are its own ...
>
> is there?
It would be better to put "s around $1, and the trick is the next:
if [ "X$1" != "X-a" -a "X$1" != "X-b" -a "X$1" != "X-p" ]; then blah; blah; blah; fi
Bye, Gabor
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