Re: [LTP] [PATCH] fix quoting in IDcheck.sh

[Mike F. <va...@ge...>]

On Sunday 09 March 2008, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> If one of the variables expands to nothing, the test(1) calls see the
> wrong syntax. It is good shell praxis to either use
>
> 	[ "$FOO" = "bar" ]

for random variables, yes.  for builtins that expand to numbers, no.

> 	[ x$FOO = xbar ]

which breaks if FOO contains whitespace.

> here; this patch changes the file to use the first variant.

i dont see any point since all the variables in question are numeric in nature
-mike