Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > I thought this was resolved by making '/bin/[' a symlink to /bin/test. > > This gives the appearance of the shell supporting [ ] even though it's > > really just running a program just as if you had used 'test'. > How does that take care of the closing `]' ?
Presumably it looks at argv and if invoked as [ it knows to ignore the closing ]. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/