Re: Should we use [[ or should we use [ when the later will do? (Was: Execution of subsequent commands ...)

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs
Message-ID <20260203154531.vjoxvj77bc5nuugl@illithid>
At 2026-02-03T08:19:47-0700, Stan Marsh wrote:
> >On 2/2/26 10:29 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> >> ps: it is really dumb to use bash extensions when standard portable
> >> POSIX shell code works equally well, "[[ $? -ne 0 ]]" is not in the
> >> slightest different from "[ $? -ne 0 ]" and the latter will work in
> >> any shell - so use the latter, not the former.
> 
> I think it is dumb to publicly call another poster "dumb".

Robert's from Australia.  If you've ever dealt with Aussie in real life,
you'd know that whoever he was talking about got off easy.

Regards,
Branden
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