When scripting, which is better?

Hi all,

Reading through the script files again, there seems to be several
different methods of doing the same thing :

i.e.  if [ -x "$self_path/postmaster" ] && [ -x "$self_path/psql" ];
then

or

if [[ -x "$self_path/postmaster" && -x "$self_path/psql" ]]; then




if [ x"$foo" = x"" ]; then

or

if [ "$op" = "" ]; then

or

if [ "$foo" ]; then


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