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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: In sh, is '[' a portable synonym
Message-ID: <63@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 11:38:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  9 11:38:46 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 05:43:30 EST
References: <313@bdaemon.UUCP> <13400016@mirror.UUCP> <132@oracle.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Summary: '['  i s  linked to test on s5.

In article <132@oracle.UUCP> abbajay@oracle.UUCP (Dave Abbajay) writes:
>I also have no REAL arguments against Guy's comments save one. '/bin/test'
>is a *program* and '[]' is intrepreted by the shell in all Sys III (and
>greater) Bourne shells.

[Disclaimer:]  I don't have the sV Bourne shell code or the Korn
shell code in front of me; however, I don't remember '[' being
treated as a special command.  I do know that 'test' is linked
to '['.  It does not seem logical to have it both ways, especially
when one can be changed without changing the other.  (Did I  s a y
that everything progrmmers do is logical?)

References: VAX-11/780 running s5r1v1, s5r1v2, s5r2v1, s5r2v2.

(Note:  PLEASE reference the system you're talking about.  I don't
know whether D.A. was talking about vaxen (prob'ly) or one of the
myriad 680X0 systems, or 3B's, or what.)
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}