[PATCH] Use '[]' over 'test' throughout.

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Sep 14 07:08:25 PDT 2010


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:50:44 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 07:29 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> 
> > Consistently use one conditional notation, ('[]') over
> > the other ('test').
> > 
> 
> I am not an expert on shells, but I think the [] construct is less
> portable that the "test" construct.
> If you grep the "configure" scripts generated by Autoconf, it
> exclusively uses "test". I have not read every line
> carefully however. If you grep the configure.ac files, same story.
> 
[] in configure is a PITA because [] are special in m4.  That doesn't
apply to this script.

Cheers,
Julien


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