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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [[ and [
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:24:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <120303202448.ZM21278@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F52D510.6000002@sergio.spb.ru>

On Mar 4,  6:36am, sergio wrote:
}
} if [[ ]]; then ... fi
} and
} if [ ]; than ... fi
} 
} OK, the first is an evaluating of the conditional expression, and what
} is the second?

An alias for the "test" builtin -- so everything that follows "[" is
parsed/expanded like an ordinary command argument.  It's in the zsh
manual under the "test" command description.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-04  4:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-04  2:36 sergio
2012-03-04  4:24 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2012-03-06  0:32   ` sergio
2012-03-06  6:05     ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-06 11:05       ` sergio
2012-03-06 11:35         ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-06 11:44           ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-06 11:53             ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-07  9:02               ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-07  9:05                 ` Mikael Magnusson
2012-03-07  9:21                   ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-07 15:27                     ` Bart Schaefer
2012-03-07  8:52             ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-07  9:43               ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-07 14:11                 ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-07 14:27                   ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-07 18:38                   ` Mark
2012-03-06 16:16           ` sergio
2012-03-06 16:29             ` Peter Stephenson
2012-03-06 17:40               ` sergio
2012-03-07  8:12         ` Nadav Har'El
2012-03-04  4:50 ` Kurtis Rader

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