Re: Re: Modifying the environment

Thanks, I never think to use "true" :p, I found that [[ 0 == 0 ]] work
by guessing.. So you mean the [[ ... ]] experessions are not supported
by standard "sh". I'll try to use "test" expression or make ksh specific
script now..

Martin


On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:34:46AM -0700, Ted Stern wrote:
> 
> The '[[ 0 == 0 ]]' syntax is overkill, and is not Bourne-shell
> compatible.  It happens to work because your /bin/sh is really running
> bash/ksh/zsh or something with Korn shell extensions.
> 
> This isn't time critical, so you can do
> 
>      while true ; do
>         ...
> 
>      done
> 
> for an infinite loop.
> 
> -- Ted
> 
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