shells?
Chet Ramey
chet at thor.INS.CWRU.Edu
Thu Apr 18 00:29:48 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr17.101443.4196 at athena.mit.edu> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In the bourne shell, a fork and exec would have to take place to run "test" to
>perform the test. In the korn shell, the test is performed in the shell
>process.
In all but truly ancient versions of /bin/sh, or perhaps in Research Unix
versions, (I do not have my manuals handy to check), test is built in.
Chet
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