On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 07:19:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 10:07:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [1] Nowadays this is a little white lie: most shells have them > > as builtins, but they are supposed to behave like regular > > programs, for compat. There /is/ a /bin/test, but I can't > > find a /bin/[ on my system anymore. > > It's in /usr/bin on Debian.
Ah, there it is, thanks. With all those young-uns shaking Unix's foundations, one never knows ;-P [...] > I'm a bit surprised they're not the same program. And also that they're > that large. And that different in size from each other. Yes, that's my recollection too: [ being a symlink to test (or even both being hardlinked together). This might betray my age... > The external versions of test and [ need to exist for POSIX conformance, > and also so that you can -exec them from find(1) or other similar > programs. I see. Do we still (seriously) care about POSIX (don't get me wrong: I'd strongly prefer a world where we did!). Cheers - t
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