"Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 17:44 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > <nitpick> [ may be a built in but then again (as its presence >> > in /usr/bin implies) it may not be :). >> >> Like any other command. > > But unlike '[[' which is the point I was replying to. Afaik you can't > provide a '[[' binary and have it mimic the builtin exactly. Because [[ is not a command, it is a reserved word, part of the shell grammar. That is the key difference, not the built-in property. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different." -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
