On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 01:51:21PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 18:41 +0200 1999-05-27, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >It's not bash, it's the "test" binary. Try "which [". RH seems to have a n > >old or broken version of shellutils if test is from the GNU shellutils on > >RH. > > In most shells, [ and test are builtins, and the `test' binary and > `[' hard link are never used unless the builtins are disabled or the > binaries are invoked with an absolute path.
Ok, I was confused, because I asked on #debian how to test if a command is a builtin or not, and they pointed me to "which", which is obviously false. (One answer to my question would be "enable" for bash, which prints all builtins) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
