Quoth Vadim Smelyansky on Wed, Jun 09, 1999:
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> VV>Anyway, does anybody in this world use 'test' instead of '['?
> For what? for longer strings in script? :)
>
> FYI usually "/usr/bin/[" it is hardlink to "/usr/bin/test"
I know it. And in sane OSes it should be in /bin, because shell
scripts use it.
Anyway, my question was not what [ and test are. My question was
why people write 'test' instead of '[', which looks nicer.
Vadik.
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