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[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 21:13 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> 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.
> 
Indeed, to quote the URL _you_ gave again:

	The KornShell-derived conditional command
	(double bracket [[]]) was removed from the shell
	command language description in an early proposal.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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