On 12/17/2013 08:02 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > Today, a script that I use every day stated giving me the following > error message. (I grant that it might have started earlier and I > didn't notice.) Note that although it gave the error message, the > script seems to still have worked. > > ./lddir: line 77: [: too many arguments > > Line 77 was as follows. I'm testing whether $1 is "clip". > > if [ x$1 = xclip ]
What was $1 at the time? > > I fixed it with this. > > if [ "x$1" = xclip ] Yes, this is the correct fix for the improper quotation of the earlier example. > > 32-bit, everything was up to date. > > I've solved my problem, but the change was unexpected and, for me, > inexplicable, so I thought that I'd report it. Your quoting error would produce the same message on Linux; it is not cygwin-specific. > > Let me know if you want/need more information. Without knowing how $1 was set, I can only guess that it contained something with characters in $IFS and therefore the word-splitting of the unquoted use caused too many arguments to [. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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