On Sat 25 Oct 2014 at 06:30:24 -0400, William D. Jones wrote: > Oops, I should've just tested this- it appears that "[" is a built-in on my > current machines. I misunderstood and thought that the "[" command wasn't > included at all in the source tree due to a recent commit error (implying > that all shell scripts that depended on it would break). Apologies. Nevertheless it should be there. echo is also a built-in in most shells, yet there is also a /bin/echo. The original sh had no builtins at all, I think, and different shells have different selections of built-ins. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- 'this bath is too hot.'
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