Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:50:46 -0400 From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up Message-ID: <24142.935279446@brown.pfcs.com> In-Reply-To: Doug's (Doug@gorean.org) message dated Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:34:56. <37BF37A0.769435B3@gorean.org>
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I understand that folks use X$foo becuase if $foo evaluates to -whatever then there is a *chance* that test will misunderstand. I gather the reason for using the X trick *and* the quotes is because there might be some whitespace in there, too. Given that "case" is a builtin and using "case" instead of "test" is both faster, easier to read (less clutter), and supports mixed-case easier, I prefer "case". But I went down this road before. H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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