On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:56:20 +0100
Chris Green wrote:
> Looking at strings within the '[' executable I see, among other
> things:-
>
> NOTE: [ honors the --help and --version options, but test does not.
> test treats each of those as it treats any other nonempty STRING.
>
> So, at least on Ubuntu Linux, they aren't identical.
I wonder why they added those versions but I imagine they made [
different so that test didn't diverge from POSIX. More and more Linux is
not unix.
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