Albin Jose@suppo.fi to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoDepression Is No Moresuppo.fiimagemessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up11.8Karrow-down139
arrow-up11.76Karrow-down1imageDepression Is No Moresuppo.fiAlbin Jose@suppo.fi to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-squarehisbaan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 years agoI believe the reason is that bash is backwards compatible with sh and sh only has [ ], not [[ ]]
minus-squarefloat@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years ago[ is a binary (sometimes a symlink) in /usr/bin. It’s /usr/bin/[ 🤓
minus-squareNumber358@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoSolution: fuck backwards compatibility and use fish
minus-squaretwelvefloatinghands@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoFish might be good for interactivity, but in terms of scripting, just go straight to python. It’s not worth it.
minus-squareCysioland@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoFish is starting to get more POSIX compliant as of late, the error redirect is no longer ^ /dev/null but 2>/dev/null
I believe the reason is that bash is backwards compatible with sh and sh only has [ ], not [[ ]]
[
is a binary (sometimes a symlink) in/usr/bin
. It’s/usr/bin/[
🤓Solution: fuck backwards compatibility and use fish
Fish might be good for interactivity, but in terms of scripting, just go straight to python. It’s not worth it.
Fish is starting to get more POSIX compliant as of late, the error redirect is no longer
^ /dev/null
but2>/dev/null