[Discuss] through the looking glass

[dan moylan]

gregory writes:
> note that you've created files 'abc' and 'xyz' in your
> current working directory.

i did indeed notice that, though not understanding why.

> change all the [ and ] to [[ and ]] and you can use this
> syntax and it should work.

yes, and somewhere i recollect having run into this before
but now can find no reference to it.

> otherwise you have to escape the /> and /<

i did this too and indeed it did work, but my perusing
"learning the bash shell" (fish) did not lead me to this or
the double brackets.  clearly i have missed something.
where was it?

thanks for your help.

ole dan

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