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[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:59 -0500, Rocco Stanzione wrote:

> On Thursday 14 September 2006 14:45, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> [snip]
> > "test -a" is a very definite bashism for "if file exists".  The correct
> > POSIX for that is -e.
> 
> trappist at monk:~$ dash
> $ [[ -e /usr/src/linux/include/asm ]] && echo YES
> dash: [[: not found
> 
> This should be valid in a POSIX-compliant shell.
> 
No it shouldn't.

[[ is not POSIX.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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