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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 06:54:13 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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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

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