Consider the following shell script 'doit':
sp=' '
nl='
'
test "${sp}1${sp}" -lt "${sp}2${sp}"
test "${nl}3${sp}" -lt "${nl}4${sp}"
test "${sp}5${nl}" -lt "${sp}6${nl}"
test "${nl}7${nl}" -lt "${nl}8${nl}"
Running the command "bash doit" outputs:
doit: line 6: test: 5
: integer expression expe
On Saturday, October 28, 2023, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bash should treat trailing whitespace the same way it treats leading
> whitespace,
Why? The same commands fail on bosh, yash, and zsh too.
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Oğuz
On 2023-10-28 18:41, Oğuz wrote:
Why? The same commands fail on bosh, yash, and zsh too.
I don't know what bosh is. zsh and yash prohibit trailing spaces in
integers, but allow leading spaces:
% test ' 3' -lt ' 4'
% test ' 3 ' -lt ' 4 '
test: integer expression expected: 3
Presumably
Date:Sat, 28 Oct 2023 22:49:13 -0700
From:Paul Eggert
Message-ID:
| I don't know what bosh is.
bosh is a modernised (updated) variant of the SysVR4 Bourne shell
I believe - it used to be maintained by Joerg Schilling (and still
contains bugs).
| PS. As I unders
