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Grouping characters (Score:1)

by richardc (1662) on 2002.12.03 5:26 (#15136) Homepage Journal

Korn and Bash shells use [ .. ] as a shorthand for test .., so it would be unwise to use those characters.

Odd, not from my the bash on my box, and not in a script either.[0]
This was giving me a little trouble before though, more for consistency with find(1) than anything, so I switched it over to using '(' and ')' as parameters. The hard part is finding a set of grouping characters that aren't significant in any shell, since () themselves are used by bash and zsh.
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bash-2.05a$ ls [ foo ] ls: [: No such file or directory ls: ]: No such file or directory foo bash-2.05a$ cat foo #!/bin/bash ls [ foo ] bash-2.05a$ ./foo ls: [: No such file or directory ls: ]: No such file or directory foo

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