shells?

[Chet Ramey]

In article <1991Apr17.101443.4196 at athena.mit.edu> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>In the bourne shell, a fork and exec would have to take place to run "test" to
>perform the test.  In the korn shell, the test is performed in the shell
>process.

In all but truly ancient versions of /bin/sh, or perhaps in Research Unix
versions, (I do not have my manuals handy to check), test is built in.

Chet


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