Stupid bash question

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:01 AM -0800 12/12/07, Dean S. Messing wrote:
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>Of course, with this new knowledge, I will feel as free as a bird to
>boldly ignore the Standard (in this respect) seeing how several other
>prominent linux executables (busybox, lvm, dump/restore, halt, to name
>a few) have been blithely ignoring it for more than a decade.  1Ž2:-)

Also sendmail, which is also known as newaliases, mailq, hoststat, and
purgestat -- but none of these programs come directly from GNU, as test
does.  Splitting test and [ seems to me a mistake of too much purity.  I
think the guidelines should list a few examples (the linker seems a good
one) and a few counter-examples (sendmail due to long useage, test due to
the need for [ to be exactly the same as test except for requiring a last
option of ].
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