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| 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 | Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:51:15 -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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