Garrett Holmstrom <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:09 AM, Bryn M. Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's cute isn't it? I had the biggest grin the day I realised that '[' >> was just another command.. > > That's the reason [[ can use special characters like < and > without > escaping, while [ can't: [[ is a builtin, but [ isn't.
Well, [ is a builtin too, but [[ is a keyword recognised by the parser, thus it can use special parsing rules. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, [email protected] GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different." -- devel mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
