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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:50:44 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 07:29 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
>>
>>> Consistently use one conditional notation, ('[]') over
>>> the other ('test').
>>>
>>
>> I am not an expert on shells, but I think the [] construct is less
>> portable that the "test" construct.
>> If you grep the "configure" scripts generated by Autoconf, it
>> exclusively uses "test". I have not read every line
>> carefully however. If you grep the configure.ac files, same story.
>>
> [] 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).

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