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bash scripting



> jc at trillian.mit.edu writes:
> >(I've heard rumors that some versions of some shells do the
> >test  as a builtin, but I've had trouble verifying this.

Yup that's true.  Bash does test as a built-in, as do all Bourne shell
derivitives AFAIK.  As always, details are in the man page.  (O.k. well
most of the time anyway...)

--
Derek D. Martin
Unix/Linux System Administrator
ddm at pizzashack.org

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