2 SC2200

Joachim Ansorg edited this page 2021-11-12 19:48:11 +01:00

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• Brace expansions don't work as operands in [ ]. Use a loop.
• Problematic code:
• Correct code:
• Rationale:
• Exceptions:

Brace expansions don't work as operands in [ ]. Use a loop.

Problematic code:

[ "$file" = index.{htm,html,php} ] && echo "This is the main file"

Correct code:

for main in index.{htm,html,php}
do
  [ "$file" = "$main" ] && echo "This is the main file"
done

Rationale:

Brace expansions in [ ] will expand to a sequence of words. Operators work on single words.

The problematic code is equivalent to [ "$file" = index.htm index.html index.php ], which is invalid syntax. A typical error message is bash: [: too many arguments or dash: somefile: unexpected operator.

Instead, use a for loop to iterate over values, and apply your condition to each.

Exceptions:

None.

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