X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AE76A96.4050708@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:48:06 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bash - IF Statement References: <26084169.post@talk.nabble.com> <26084235.post@talk.nabble.com> <26085599.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <26085599.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com . Reformatted. On 10/27/2009 05:34 PM, briglass111 wrote: > Andrew Schulman-3 wrote: >> >>> good job, bash >> >> This is the Cygwin list. Please take non-Cygwin-related comments >> elsewhere. > > before i knew that bash was white-space picky, i thought this may be a cygwin > issue because i read a bit about people saying bash is different in cygwin > than in unix, and i got the if-statement code from a website about unix, and > when it didn't run in cygwin's bash i figured it was a cygwin-specific issue Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Yes, I recognize this statement is a paradox. ;-) > thanks, andrew schulman, for taking a detour from your sad life to post that Actually, Andrew's life is very happy. He's full of exuberance and glee. We just restrain him on this list so that it doesn't show. It just wouldn't be fair to have him flaunting his happiness in the face of the rest of us who live a life of tedium and despair on the Cygwin list... ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple