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Re: What is the '[' binary?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: What is the '[' binary?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:00:17 +0200
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address@hidden writes:

> Just curious. It shows as a binary in the README and the installation
> directory.

It's a variant of the `test' command.  The only difference to `test' is
that `[' expects `]' as the last argument in addition to the normal
arguments.

Andreas.

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