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Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible by pizza234 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @03:15PM (#23644368)
It's true, but you're semantically overloading the variable syntax (by hinting that it's treated as string).

Plus, left and single operands, in bash conditions, don't require quoting, so a lean style is actually not to use them at all.

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Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible by tempodox on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:51AM (#23650588)
> …left and single operands…

That's false:

  x='foo bar'; [ $x = 'foo bar' ]; echo $?
  -bash: [: too many arguments

  x='foo bar'; [ "$x" = 'foo bar' ]; echo $?
  0
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Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible by gravitas on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:37AM (#23651281)
As I replied to your other comment, you cannot just replace [[ with [ and get the same behaviour. If you use the actual bash builtin [[ which we're discussing, it works as expected. Also, please use == when comparing, = is an assignment operator (in almost every programming language).
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Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible by tempodox on Friday June 26, 2020 @09:42AM (#23651854)
My bad. I interpreted “bash conditions” differently.
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