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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:24:48 -0800
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Comments: In reply to sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru>        "[[ and [" (Mar  4,
  6:36am)
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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.