[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Make yum-cron code and config files prettier.

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 09:06:32AM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > In a couple of places, yes. And then I figured it was better to make them
> > all be that way to be consistent
> Speaking only wrt bash, if portability to other shells is not a concern,
> I personally prefer [[ over [.  Off the top of my head, it has more
> features, it is faster, it has short-circuit evaluation, and one does
> not have to remember to protect/quote variables in tests like [ -z
> "$foo" ] e.g. when the value of $foo can contain spaces.

Yeeh. The key difference is that [[ is a language construct, while [ is a
_command_ (even though a built-in one) with weird syntax to make it _appear_
like a language construct.



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