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From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
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Subject: Test and [
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Date: 28 Apr 91 03:36:01 GMT
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 David Megginson <david@doe.utoronto.ca> writes:
 
> Has anyone released patches so that the Minix shell can use the
>  if [ <condition> ] 
> syntax instead of the
>  if test <condition>
> ....lines omitted
 
Try linking /usr/bin/test to /usr/bin/[ - it may do what you want.  For
more info, try the test.c source code, line 21 et. seq.  More recent
man pages also document this.
 
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