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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: Bug in bash "[" function
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Date: 2 Aug 89 21:46:34 GMT
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   Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 09:21:13 EDT
   From: hugo@griggs.dartmouth.edu (Peter Su)


   When bash interprets this code:

   if [ ! -d $xtop/util -o ! -d $xtop/util/imake.includes ]; then
       echo "$progname"":  no X configuration files under $xtop"
       exit 1
   fi

   it says "[: too many arguments.", Bourne shell "[" works fine on the
   same expression.

   I think this is because the precedence of the ! operator is different
   in bash than in sh.

Thanks.  Fixed.

Brian