Jörg Schaible wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 1:04 PM: > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:37:10PM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: > >> BTW: It does also not know the "[ ]" syntax for a built-in test, you > >> always have to use "test": > >> > >> if test -f /etc/hosts; then > >> echo "/etc/hosts exist!" > >> fi > > > > Beep. Wrong. It knows [ ] > > > > Corinna
> Did that change at some point? I remember having really big problems writing scripts > running on a on Solaris, Linux and Cygwin some years ago <g> and IIRC it was > basically because of ash at that time ... > I thought this was resolved by making '/bin/[' a symlink to /bin/test. This gives the appearance of the shell supporting [ ] even though it's really just running a program just as if you had used 'test'. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/