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tmcd wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
>> But leaving that aside for the moment, perhaps you have a a
>> corrupted '/bin/[.exe'.  Yes, it's just a WAG that really shouldn't
>> be an issue but given your unique environment, maybe it's worth
>> checking.
> 
> I don't have the original note handy, but I thought it was of the form
>     if [ ... ]
> As the subject line noted, [ is a shell builtin in bash (and I think
> even in sh of recent decades), so I don't see how it could be affected
> by corruption of anything other than /bin/bash.exe.
> 
> If the original code was
>     if /bin/test ...
> or
>     if /bin/[ ... ]
> then it would be likelier.
> 

No argument here.  I also doubt that it has anything to do with [.exe
but since the behavior reported doesn't make allot of sense, I thought of
it as a pathological case that's easy to check.  I still suspect that it
has more to do with the environment than with bash/Cygwin.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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