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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:24:23 +0200
From:      "Peter Rosa" <prosa@pro.sk>
To:        "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problem with periodically done scripts
Message-ID:  <036d01c352fb$8000a260$3501a8c0@pro.sk>
References:  <44wue68ebs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org><033601c352fa$93aa0280$3501a8c0@pro.sk> <20030725222200.GA2484@dan.emsphone.com>

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But inside /bin is command named [

Is it what do you mean ? Or it should not be there and act only as an alias
?

Peter Rosa



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: "Peter Rosa" <prosa@pro.sk>
Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: Problem with periodically done scripts


> In the last episode (Jul 26), Peter Rosa said:
> > Dear Gilbert,
> >
> > I have replaced wc with make install from /usr/src/usr.bin/wc and now it
> > works. Up now wc -l gave no results, now it give proper number.
> >
> > Could you, please, explain the following line: [ $n -gt 0 -a $rc -lt 1 ]
???
> > Why are there [] ? When I write it at prompt as
> > [0 -gt 0 -a - lt 0] it writes [: 0: unexpected operator, but
> > [0 -gt 0 -a -lt ] writes nothing.
>
> [ is another way to run the "test" command.  "man test" for more info.
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
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