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Re: test -f with no args is true


From: Bob Proulx
Subject: Re: test -f with no args is true
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:13:12 -0600
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Chet Ramey wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > As an alternative, you could use the [[ ... ]] syntax.  That is the
> > newer syntax, covered in POSIX too so should be portable to POSIX
> > systems, but is always a built-in to the shell.
> 
> POSIX declined to standardize [[...]].  It just happens to appear in
> `posix shells' descended from ksh or bash.

Thank you very much for the correction.

> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

So appropriate for this topic!

Bob




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