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From: chet@thor.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
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Subject: Re: shells?
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Date: 17 Apr 91 14:29:48 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.101443.4196@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>In the bourne shell, a fork and exec would have to take place to run "test" to
>perform the test.  In the korn shell, the test is performed in the shell
>process.

In all but truly ancient versions of /bin/sh, or perhaps in Research Unix
versions, (I do not have my manuals handy to check), test is built in.

Chet


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