Hi Vanessa, The [ is the test operator. Normally it is used in conditional statements ( if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ]; then ...) but testing can be used in conjunction with logical testing (&& || - logical and, logical or) for example: [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ] && echo "you are using xterm" [ $? -eq 0 ] || exit # This will exit if the previous exit status was non-zero
Russell --- Corpus Christi, Texas where's it's currently 54 and breezy Vanessa Murdock wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded and installed cygwin. I did an ls -la on > the /usr/bin/ directory and found a binary called > "[.exe". Is this a legitimate utility (and what does > it do)? > > (Note: I tried searching the web and the mail list > archives for information about this, but the "[" > character isn't recognized (with or without quotes), > and so every post that mentions ".exe" is retrieved, > which is almost all of them. So I apologize if this > has been answered elsewhere.) > > Thanks, > > Vanessa > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
