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Re: sh script Q



Vadim Smelyansky <jim@widenet.co.il> writes:

> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> 
> VV>Anyway, does anybody in this world use 'test' instead of '['?
> 	For what? for longer strings in script? :) 

test -w foo && do_sth_with foo

looks more readable than

[ -w foo ] && do_sth_with foo

and is only 1 char longer, and is shorter than 

if [ -w foo ]; then do_sth_with foo; fi

I actually use the first form in my scripts and prefer it to the
second one). Otherwise, just kidding ;-)

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