On Fri, 1 May 2009, Eric Blake wrote:

In the grand scheme of things, 'if test... fi' and 'case ... esac' are
both shell builtins, so no change in efficiency on the number of processes

The 'test' command is not always a shell builtin, although it usually is these days. That is why there is a /bin/test program.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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