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|    August Abolins to Maurice Kinal    |
|    I just discovered busybox, for Windows..    |
|    13 Sep 24 18:20:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 186581c6       REPLY: 2:280/464.113 66e3ab65       PID: OpenXP/5.0.58 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       Hello Maurice!              ** On Friday 13.09.24 - 03:03, Maurice Kinal wrote to Aug:               MK> Try this at your busybox commandline;        MK> [ "a" = "a" ] ; echo $?               MK> It should return a 0 for true since a is equal to a. Now try;        MK> [ "a" = "b" ] ; echo $?               MK> In this case it should return a 1 for false since a is not equal to b.                     H:\>busybox [ "a" = "a" ] ; echo $?       [: missing ]              Even in a shell, doesn't work:              H:\>busybox sh       H:/ $ H:\>[ "a" = "a" ] ; echo $?       sh: H:>[: not found       127       H:/ $                     ..but the bash chell seemed to cooperate:              H:\>busybox bash       H:/ $ [ "a" = "a" ] ; echo $?       0       H:/ $              H:/ $ [ "a" = "b" ] ; echo $?       1       H:/ $              Thx.              How does the double [, or [[ work?                                   --         ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.58        * Origin: (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 153/7715 154/10       SEEN-BY: 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 601 700 840 850 860 870 880 930 940       SEEN-BY: 221/1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 114 206 300 317 400 426       SEEN-BY: 229/428 470 664 700 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 291/111       SEEN-BY: 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 460/58 633/280       SEEN-BY: 712/848 5075/35       PATH: 221/1 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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