Two words: history and POSIX. It's been done that way for more
than 20
years, so it was standardized that way. Changing it would break
too many
existing scripts.
Forgive me for saying so, and please appreciate both the sarcasm and
irony, but I've never been one for "that's the way it's
On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:56 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
The [ is a shell builtin, not a shell
metacharacter. Shell metacharacters do not need to be separated by
whitespace but the test program needs to be apart or it won't be
parsed right. That is why you are seeing "[-d" not found. It is not
a paren
Hi All,
I've got a script that I'm trying to set up, but it keeps telling me
that "[-d command not found". Can someone please explain what is
wrong with this?:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $*
do
{
if [-d $i]
then
echo "$i is a directory! Yay!"
else
