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From: jms@cs.vu.nl (Jan-Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Are there any sh (1) patches?
Summary: link test to ``[''
Message-ID: <9814@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 29 Apr 91 11:19:56 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.190119.9776@doe.utoronto.ca>
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Reply-To: jms@cs.vu.nl (Jan-Mark Wams)
Organization: VU Dept. of Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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In article <1991Apr27.190119.9776@doe.utoronto.ca>,
	david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes:
> 
> Has anyone released patches so that the Minix shell can use the
> 
> 	if [ <condition> ]
> 
> syntax instead of the
> 
> 	if test <condition>
> 
> syntax? I'm no Bourne Shell wizard, but most of the shell scripts I
> find from Unix expect the brackets. Thank you for any info, and even
> flames might be appreciated.
> 

From test.c:

 *              Add Jeroen van der Pluijm  09/25/89 jeroen@minixug.nluug.nl
 *                  Enabled linking to /usr/bin/[ so you cn use structures
 *                  like:
 *                         if [ -f ./test.c ]
 *                  and so on. Also added checking of argv[0] to see if it
 *                  is '[' and the last argument if it is ']'.
 *

So try to link /bin/test to /bin/[ or (/usr/bin/test to /usr/bin/[). It should
work. If it doesn't try to get a newer test program (ie. after 09/25/89.)
or even better try to get a newer MINIX version. I don't think POSIX (ie. 
MINIX 2.0) will like this, but that's an other problem.

Jan-Mark
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