[PATCH] Use '[]' over 'test' throughout.

James Cloos cloos at jhcloos.com
Tue Sep 14 11:52:14 PDT 2010


>>>>> "AC" == Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> writes:

AC> Right - I don't know of any OS we support with a shell that doesn't
AC> support [] - even the ancient Solaris bourne shell can handle them,
AC> and it's usually the cause of many shell workarounds.

Back in the day (80's) /usr/bin/[ was a symlink to /usr/bin/test; I see
that current coreutils uses a separate binary, though.

IOW, even if the shell doesn't support it, there ought to be an [
executable in $PATH.

-JimC
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