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.

Chet
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