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What is "test"? How it is used in shell scripting?

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What is "test"? How it is used in shell scripting?..

Answer / madhavi

test is used to validate an expression in shell script.
for ex:in if loop ,is used as follows
if test a > b
{
#some statements
}
fi
instead of
if [ a > b ]
{
#some statements
}
fi

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What is "test"? How it is used in shell scripting?..

Answer / swaroopa

The test command is particularly useful in this context
allowing a variety of conditions to be checked for. There
are two equivalent syntaxes.

test expression

and
[ expression ]

The following simple example will list all the
subdirectories of the current directory.


for i in *
do
if [ -d $i ]
then
echo $i
fi
done

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