On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:35 -0700, Kevin wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:08 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > ./pref_prefs_hooks.create: line 10: [: =: unary operator expected
> 
> Did you try == instead of = ?
> 
> As Kevin Brown mentioned "= is the assignment variable, == is the test
> conditional"
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yea - I'm sorry - I should have checked that before I have posted it...

I now have in my tried and failed...

#    if [ "START" == ${i:5:5} ]
#    if [ `echo $i | awk '{print substr($i,5,5)}'` = "START" ]
#    if [ `expr substr $i 5 5` == "START" ]

this is exasperating

Craig

awk is light years slower

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