Randy McMurchy wrote:
Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/14/05 14:07 CST:
However, I'm only going to invest time in
this if someone can convince me of why we *need* to move 'test' and '['
to /bin.
They are both used in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions?
That's a shell script (with the magic shebang line "#!/bin/sh"), so,
according to POSIX, the shell builtin will be preferred over the binary
version. This will obviously fail if the shell doesn't provide the
utility as a shell built-in (and POSIX doesn't mandate any particular
utility should be a built-in). Obviously 'bash' provides both 'test'
and '[', 'ash' [0] and 'zsh' [1] do too. It appears as though 'tcsh' [2]
doesn't, but how many alternative shells should we even care about?
Matt.
[0]http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/oss/ae/ae_20.html
[1]http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=1&topic=zshbuiltins
[2]http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/resources/software/os/shells/tcsh/Builtin_commands.html
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