Jon Seymour <jon.seym...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure this is correct. The ] is parsed by the shell
It's parsed by the [ command. That happens to be a builtin command, so yes, it is done by the shell, but it is not part of the grammar of the shell language. > This is why the -n option reports an error, since -n suppresses > command execution. -n *doesn't* report an error, because it only checks that the script satisfies the shell grammar. It doesn't verify that the arguments of builtin commands are meaningful. paul
