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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>
> 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?

probably, but it's likely older than the roughly 2-year (at most) scope of 
interest in this list.

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