On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:48:12AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > 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'. How does that take care of the closing `]' ?
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