[geeks] OpenSolaris ready for Production?

[Phil Stracchino]

Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:26:17PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with that usage and can't quite make sense of what it
>> would do.  As far as I can see, '/bin/bash -c true' returns true if
>> 'true' exists in the current directory and is a character special file,
>> which doesn't seem a useful test under the circumstances.
> 
> I think you're thinking of 'test -c' (or '[ -c]'), which does check if the
> specified file is a character special file. 'bash -c' simply executes the
> specified commands AFAIK.

Doh!  You're right of course.  Put it down to a brainfart on my part....


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