From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:58:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix problematic ']'
Message-ID: <20070723235835.36b6d87a.tihirvon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200707232236.21389.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> wrote:

> Not all shells grok a closing ']' of the shell '[' command without
> surrounding space.

That's one good reason to use test instead of /usr/bin/[ hack (yes it
has been a shell built-in for a long time). [ is just like test but
expects ] as last parameter and ignores it.  Very ugly IMO.

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