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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:37:51 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ash does not understand '~'
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:46:16PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:48:12AM -0700, Brian Dessent 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 `]' ?

The test(1) sources are your friend ;-)

The above isn't true for ash but test(1) is able to work that way.

Corinna

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