28 Jul
2011
28 Jul
'11
9:25 p.m.
On Thu, July 28, 2011 14:30, James B. Byrne wrote:
I am trying to check for a single period '.' in a shell variable.
$ I=. $ echo $I . $ if [[ "$I" -eq '.' ]]; then echo true; fi -bash: [[: .: syntax error: operand expected (error token is ".")
. . .
How does one check to see for this in a bash script?
Found it.
if [[ "$I" == './' ]]; then echo match; fi match
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