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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:46:16 +0200
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ash does not understand '~'
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:48:12AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Jörg Schaible wrote:
> > 
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote on Friday, October 17, 2003 1:04 PM:
> > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:37:10PM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote:
> > >> BTW: It does also not know the "[ ]" syntax for a built-in test, you
> > >> always have to use "test":
> > >>
> > >> if test -f /etc/hosts; then
> > >>      echo "/etc/hosts exist!"
> > >> fi
> > >
> > > Beep.  Wrong.  It knows [ ]
> > >
> > > Corinna
> 
> > Did that change at some point? I remember having really big problems writing scripts running on a on Solaris, Linux and Cygwin some years ago <g> and IIRC it was basically because of ash at that time ...
> > 
> 
> 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 `]' ?

rlc

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