It doesn’t have anything to do with bash (though modern bash may use a built in for `[`). He don’t have the `[` program (usually linked to `test`).

Which is why later versions of bash have a builtin…

Precisely because those older systems didn’t link to it!

So my comment still stands.

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> Precisely because those older systems didn’t link to it!

Not to speed up bash scripts? Launching a process for simple if statements such as those checking whether a file exists is fairly expensive.

	▲	reactordev 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ugh, which is why it became a builtin… Ya’ll are tracing the same logic of the 90s here.

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