Bash Help

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 14:54:02 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:28, Jeff Vian wrote:

> > When I do 'man bash' I can't find any instance of -z, any ideas where
> > it came from?
> > 
> -z is one of the options to test
> man test
> [] is an alias for test

Sort-of.  Both [ and test are shell built-ins that do the equivalent
of /usr/bin/test without having to start another program.

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  Les Mikesell
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