From: Peter Whaite <peta@whaite.ca>
To: ZSH User List <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Maildir empty?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:04:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407121804.i6CI4W3j005637@brains.moreideas.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from DervishD <raul@pleyades.net> of "Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:33:06 +0200." <20040712143306.GB2502@DervishD>
DervishD <raul@pleyades.net> wrote:
>
> > I can only give a partial answer. `[' is treated like any other
> > command, so its arguments are subject to filename expansion.
>
It used to be that /bin/[ was a link to /bin/test, which is why
/bin/test still swallows a trailing ]. Now wasn't that clever!
--
Peter Whaite (http://whaite.ca)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-13 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-12 7:37 Klaus Wacker
2004-07-12 9:43 ` DervishD
2004-07-12 9:44 ` Oliver Kiddle
2004-07-12 12:41 ` Klaus Wacker
2004-07-12 13:22 ` DervishD
2004-07-12 14:09 ` Klaus Wacker
2004-07-12 14:33 ` DervishD
2004-07-12 18:04 ` Peter Whaite [this message]
2004-07-13 18:28 ` Dan Nelson
2004-07-12 10:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-07-12 14:17 ` Klaus Wacker
2004-07-12 14:44 ` Peter Stephenson
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