Quick follwup to "is this really correct"

[gene@xxxxxxxx]

The following does work (use a="-a" instead of "-s")

a="-a"; if [ "$a" = "-a" ] ;  then echo "yeh" ; fi 
yeh


Gene
gene@xxxxxxxx

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