Re: Bug#6316: Is /usr/bin/[ still needed?
kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
> I gather that POSIX.2 mentions [, but I have no idea if it mandates its
> separate existence, or only that sh understands it
1003.2 mandates it in section 4.62, and says this to say about section
4, "Execution Evironment Utilities": "The Execution Environment
Utilities are the utilities that shall be implemented in all
conforming POSIX.2 systems." Since we have at least one shell that
doesn't provide it as a builtin, we must not remove it.
Incidentally, I found a copy of POSIX.2 in
http://ftp.std.com/obi/Standards/posix/1003.2/
Guy
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