cli: hush_modern: Enable using < and > as string compare operators
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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