In Busybox hush, '<' and '>' are used as redirection operators.
For example, cat foo > bar will write content of file foo inside file bar.
In U-Boot, we do not have file system, so we can hardly redirect command output
inside a file.
But, in actual U-Boot hush, these operators ('<' and '>') are used as string
compare operators.
For example, test aaa < bbb returns 0 as aaa is before bbb in the dictionary.
Busybox hush also permits this, but operators need to be escaped ('\<' and
'\>').
Indeed, if escaping is needed it permits the developer to think about its code,
as in a lot of case, we want to compare integers (using '-lt' or '-gt') rather
than strings.
As testing in U-Boot is handled by the test command, we will stick with the
original behaviour and not adapt to Busybox one.
Nonetheless, if one day we decide to implement test with '[[ ]]', we will then
stick to upstream Busybox behavior.
Signed-off-by: Francis Laniel <francis.laniel@amarulasolutions.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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