Stupid bash question

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

aragonx at dcsnow.com wrote:
> Okay, I'm confused.  How would bash interpret this line?
> 
> [ "`isthislinux`" = "LINUX" ] && ulimit -S -n 65536
> 
> Would that be teh same as:
> 
> if [ "`isthislinux`" == "LINUX" ]
> then
>    ulimit -S -n 65536
> fi
> 
> This is quite confusing to me.
> 
One thing that would probably help your understanding is that [ is
actually a command. It is usually a shell built-in command, but it
is also a command in /usr/bin, and is the same as the test command.

You may want to read the bash man page. It covers the [ command, as
well as how && and || are processed by  the shell.

Mikkel
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