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Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:30:12 -0700
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From:	Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject:	Re: "==" operand not found
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Nitin,

You're most likely accustomed on your Linux system to "/bin/sh" being BASH. 
On Cygwinm /bin/sh is ASH, and it is far more minimal in its implementation 
of the POSIX shell standard, and does not provide "==" as an equivalent for 
"=" in the "test" (a.k.a. "[") built-in.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:22 2002-10-23, Nitin Gupta wrote:
>Hi,
>following script runs fine on linux, but not on cygwin. Please let me know 
>equivalent of "==" on cygwin.
>
>Thanks,
>Nitin
>
>#!/bin/sh
>if [ "$1" == "1" ]; then
>echo Hello World
>fi


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