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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