Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge 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 Lines: 11 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <56017620.4010303@redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1442940683 9580 208.118.235.17 (22 Sep 2015 16:51:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org, bash@packages.debian.org To: Daniel Simeone Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11547 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/[