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Re: '/usr/bin/['
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Simpson)
Thu Nov 5 19:03:46 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:03:31 +1100 (EST)
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From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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On 5 Nov 1998, in message <Pine.LNX.3.95.981105124429.4270C-100000@snt-gw.snt.isternet.sk>
Tomas Buday <tomas@snt.sk> wrote:
| ...more on /usr/bin/[
| it's a symlink pointing at /usr/bin/test...right!
| suppose the followong example:
| "test 1 -eq 5" ... this works fine (try echo $?)
| so "[ 1 -eq 5" should work as well, but it doesn't.
| ...it requires a closing "]"
| why is this?
I'm trying to figure out if you're asking a question, or badly phrasing a
let's-educate-the-masses blurb.
Assuming the former: test had always checked argv[0] for [ and required the
closing ] when used that way.
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