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		kl4m on June 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bash [ -z hello ] Indeed, "test" is exactly like "[" except that it doesn't check that its last argument is a "]".

vacri on June 26, 2014 [–]

For some reason I've always been amused by "which [". The idea of 'punctuation' being a command or a filename is something that threw me.

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