"Bryn M. Reeves" writes:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 17:44 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> "Bryn M. Reeves" writes:
>>
>> > [ may be a built in but then again (as its presence
>> > in /usr/bin implies) it may not be :).
>>
>> Like any other command.
>
> But unlike '[[' which is the point I was re
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 17:44 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "Bryn M. Reeves" writes:
>
> > [ may be a built in but then again (as its presence
> > in /usr/bin implies) it may not be :).
>
> Like any other command.
But unlike '[[' which is the point I was replying to. Afaik you can't
provide a '
"Bryn M. Reeves" writes:
> [ may be a built in but then again (as its presence
> in /usr/bin implies) it may not be :).
Like any other command.
Andreas.
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On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:44 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Garrett Holmstrom writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> >> It's cute isn't it? I had the biggest grin the day I realised that '['
> >> was just another command..
> >
> > That's the reason [[ can use speci
Garrett Holmstrom writes:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> It's cute isn't it? I had the biggest grin the day I realised that '['
>> was just another command..
>
> That's the reason [[ can use special characters like < and > without
> escaping, while [ can't: [[ is a
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> It's cute isn't it? I had the biggest grin the day I realised that '['
> was just another command..
That's the reason [[ can use special characters like < and > without
escaping, while [ can't: [[ is a builtin, but [ isn't.
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On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 08:41 -0800, Cleaver, Japheth wrote:
> > Denis Leroy
> > what about '/usr/bin/[', part of cureutils... had never
> > noticed this one before.
> >
> > -denis
>
>
> Isn't that simply what makes "if [ (blah) ]" work?
It's cute isn't it? I had the biggest grin the day I reali
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Cleaver, Japheth wrote:
>
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