-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] on 3/24/2006 7:59 PM: > > Are they supposed to be different?
Yes. "[" requires a final "]" argument, while "test" does not. And POSIX requires that "test --help" and "[ --help ]" both return success (0) without output. Only [ can print a help message, and only when you use a syntax that is not specified by POSIX (namely, "[ --help". "man test" shows 5 forms (2 for test and 3 for [) for that very reason. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEJL+c84KuGfSFAYARAs6wAKDVa1Rk+9PvJWwhIRpb3QcVDWoT2gCgrtTd 76Q+qzIZMzu0mYnCJqhY9oE= =SRDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
