Re: '[ --version' should give output, instead a bash error missing re: missing ']'

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: '[ --version' should give output, instead a bash error missing re: missing ']'
Date	2015-09-22 12:51 -0400
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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/[

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Re: '[ --version' should give output, instead a bash error missing re: missing ']' Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2015-09-22 12:51 -0400

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