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How to compare strings in ksh

I want to check the result of a job and execute an action on FAILED. First: I grep the last word of the line in my application logfile (for the recent processed file ($processedfilename)): check1=$(...
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Why does parameter expansion with spaces without quotes work inside double brackets "[[" but not inside single brackets "["?

I'm confused with using single or double brackets. Look at this code: dir="/home/mazimi/VirtualBox VMs" if [[ -d ${dir} ]]; then echo "yep" fi It works perfectly although the string contains a ...
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