On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Bob Glover wrote:
> I'm fairly certain that ] is not tied exclusively to the test
> operators. The [ "operator" is actually just the name of a command.
> Try this:
>
> ls -l /usr/bin/[
>
> The [ command (AKA test) expects it's last argument to be the ]
> character, that's all.
i knew that. :-) i've done a fair bit of shell programming, in the
bourne and korn shell, and a little bash as well. i've *never* seen
anything resembling an i/o ]] construct. i just checked the o'reilly
book, "learning the bash shell," 2nd ed., which covers bash 2.0, and
there is *nothing* about this construct in the chapter on i/o
redirection. ergo, i'm convinced it's a typo of some kind.
rday
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