On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:24:18PM +0200, Sander van Dijk wrote: > On 5/23/07, Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The emacs comparison is nonsensical. test is a builtin in most shells > >(offhand bash, ash, dash, ksh, pdksh, zsh, sash on this Debian system > >where I have a login shell), so of course [ should be a builtin, too. > >They're the same thing after all. > > Yes, if one is builtin, the other should be as well. I'm just saying > that it's unclear to me why they should be builtin at all?
test is used way more often. Given that many (most) if statements require it to check conditions, I think it makes sense to avoid spawning a new process for it. Diego
