On 2007-11-21, Karl Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since there is no reason to prefer [, it is good to keep using test,
> because of the quoting, and for consistency with all the existing code
> that does so.
Using `[' is better in a particular case in makefiles - there the
Solaris VPATH rewri
My understanding is that [ and
test have been synonyms for a long time,
Well, they were always "synonyms" in the sense that they were
(typically, at least) hard links to each other. But the behavior
obviously differs; [ has to strip a trailing ] argument. There were
bugs in that parsing
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According to Karl Berry on 11/6/2007 5:27 PM:
[adding autoconf, since the autoconf manual likes documenting these things]
> Are there still Unixen for which [ is not portable?
>
> Portability isn't the problem with [. It's parsing.
>
> [ -n "$
