Question about 'test' (Was Re: testing if a file is present)

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <90326.175421PPH93 at DMSWWU1A.BITNET> PPH93 at DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Thomas Heller) writes:

>But what will the (bourne-) shell say about...
>>
>>        if [ -r filename ]; then
>                          ^

Why should the shell do anything about it? The "]" is an argument to
"[" (which is a link to test). The shell just passes that token as an
argument when it exec's test.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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