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

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Tue Sep 14 14:22:38 PDT 2010


On Sep 14, 2010, at 14:06, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:50:44 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>> [] in configure is a PITA because [] are special in m4.  That doesn't
>> apply to this script.
> 
> Actually, autoconf changes the quotes _to_ [] from the more-pervasive `'.
> 
> ("test" is used for portability, though this list doesn't touch much on that).

I belive we are concerned about portability.  Do you have an example of a bourne-derived shell (we're talking about sh after all) that doesn't have support for [] on a system that doesn't have an [ executable in $PATH?



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