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From: ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org (Ralf Wenk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Are there any sh (1) patches?
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.224352.03720@ptavv.ka.sub.org>
Date: 28 Apr 91 22:43:52 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.190119.9776@doe.utoronto.ca>
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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.

Just link test to '[' and it will work. I did not test if this is
working as expected in extreme cases.

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Ralf Wenk -- ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org