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michaelhoffman on Sept 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bashttpd - An http server in bash

You can also solve that problem with double square brackets:

  [[ "$foo" = 1 && "$bar" = 2 ]]

avleenvig on Sept 16, 2012 [–]

Really, we should be using double square brackets. We're not aiming for POSIX compliance and double square solves a lot of problems.

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