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Re: sh script Q



On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:09:40PM +0300, Vadim Vygonets wrote:

> Anyway, does anybody in this world use 'test' instead of '['?

[gaal@derain ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/[ /usr/bin/test
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Mar 26 00:50 /usr/bin/[ -> test
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        16856 Aug  5  1998 /usr/bin/test

.and on some systems they may be hard linked.

'test' and '[' are entirely equivalent.

Unless, of course, you were alluding to using the executable as
opposed to the buitin -- something you just MIGHT have to do if
your shell is broken but you have a GNU test somewhere (on a non
linux box, this is feasible)..

Shell programming. Blugh.
perl -le 'print "Just another \u$^X hacker,"'

gaal