Shell Var?

[Oviwan]

Hi

What does this exactly mean:
[
\
....

is somewhere an overview or something else?

Regards

[RAC_1]

It is another way of putting if not construct.

I prefer if [xxxx];then
hjhdhd
fi

[Peter Godron]

Oviwan,
91 is the ascci value for [
93 is the ascii value for ]

man ascii ( look for 5b and 5d (hex for 91,93)

[Muthukumar_5]

&# used to handle an alphabet in ascii mode in scripting. It is an expert level scripting.

# cat /usr/share/lib/pub/ascii

will give letter and ascii value to it.

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Muthu

[Oviwan]

Thanks!

But what is the reason for using the ascii method? is this environment dependently?

Regards

[Muthukumar_5]

Not like that. You can use ascii mode as well in shell.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=143878

See in that, netconf file is configured with [ and \ instead of [] for shell variables.

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Muthu

[Muthukumar_5]

See this:

Give [ in forums search in the top. It is changed to [ alphabet. Like the shell will interpret.

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Muthu

[Peter Godron]

Oviwan,
I have not come across a situation were I HAD to use the ascii equivalence codes.
I assume it is down to personal preference.

[Oviwan]

Thanks,

at first glance it's really confusing. Isn't there really an other reason?

Regards

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi,

Check this thread out

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=22050

-Arun

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Oviwan:

This is an old bug introducted into the Forum database during one of its upgrades. The notation should render as open and close square brackets, respectively.

See Stuart Browne's post at Sep 22, 2003 06:25:13 GMT and Dan Gazzaniga's comments at Sep 26, 2003 17:34:02 GMT in this post:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xb27041de970ce3438b2622f343b29fbc,00.html&admit=716493758+1066396007828+28353475

Regards!

...JRF...

[Oviwan]

hehe, thanks, now it's all clear ;)