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aznluvsmc · Dec 29th, 2005, 2:21 PM

I found out that you can use [ test-condition ] or [[ test-condition ]] in shell scripts . To me the [[ test-condition ]] syntax seems to resemble other programming lanuage syntax by support && and || logical operators. Is one syntax preferred over the other?

Dec 29th, 2005, 2:21 PM	#1
aznluvsmc Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 137 Rep Power: 4	Which test syntax to use? I found out that you can use [ test-condition ] or [[ test-condition ]] in shell scripts . To me the [[ test-condition ]] syntax seems to resemble other programming lanuage syntax by support && and \|\| logical operators. Is one syntax preferred over the other?