Bob Proulx wrote: > As an alternative, you could use the [[ ... ]] syntax. That is the > newer syntax, covered in POSIX too so should be portable to POSIX > systems, but is always a built-in to the shell.
POSIX declined to standardize [[...]]. It just happens to appear in `posix shells' descended from ksh or bash. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash