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Re: What is the '[' binary?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: What is the '[' binary? |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:00:17 +0200 |
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address@hidden writes:
> Just curious. It shows as a binary in the README and the installation
> directory.
It's a variant of the `test' command. The only difference to `test' is
that `[' expects `]' as the last argument in addition to the normal
arguments.
Andreas.
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