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Re: test -f with no args is true
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: test -f with no args is true |
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Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:15:05 -0400 |
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Bob Proulx wrote:
> As an alternative, you could use the [[ ... ]] syntax. That is the
> newer syntax, covered in POSIX too so should be portable to POSIX
> systems, but is always a built-in to the shell.
POSIX declined to standardize [[...]]. It just happens to appear in
`posix shells' descended from ksh or bash.
Chet
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Re: test -f with no args is true, Paul Jarc, 2006/04/15