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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:54:03 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Bash - IF Statement
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It didn't matter if I believed what I read on the internet or not, I couldn't
get the IF-statement to work, and when I queried a unix user, he wasn't sure
at first, and so I thought maybe it was a cygwin-specific issue. The issue
was finalized and complete before schulman's detour, and this small thread
doesn't detract from this forum's large corpus.


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>.  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...
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> -- 
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> _____________________________________________________________________
> 
> A: Yes.
>  > Q: Are you sure?
>  >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>  >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
> 
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