Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID:	<3F8FF485.77EEC825@dessent.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:54:13 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
Organization:	My own little world...
X-Accept-Language:	en,en-US
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: ash does not understand '~'
References:	<F0D7281DAB048B438E8F5EC4ECEFBDDC174F05 AT esmail DOT elsag DOT de> <3F8FE50C DOT 5DBFA9E7 AT dessent DOT net> <20031017134616 DOT GB9808 AT linux_rln DOT harvest>
X-AntiAbuse:	This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse:	Primary Hostname - host.linuxsv3.net
X-AntiAbuse:	Original Domain - cygwin.com
X-AntiAbuse:	Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse:	Sender Address Domain - dessent.net
Note-from-DJ:	This may be spam

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:

> > I thought this was resolved by making '/bin/[' a symlink to /bin/test.
> > This gives the appearance of the shell supporting [ ] even though it's
> > really just running a program just as if you had used 'test'.
> How does that take care of the closing `]' ?

Presumably it looks at argv and if invoked as [ it knows to ignore the
closing ].

Brian

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -