On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:46:05AM -0500, Daniel Simeone wrote: > When I ran 'which [' it stated that the /usr/bin/[ was what was running, > and so I presumed it was in bash.
which(1) is an external program, so it doesn't know about shell builtins. Use "type [" in bash intead. I'm quite fond of type -a: $ type -a [ [ is a shell builtin [ is /usr/bin/[