[Techtalk] re: Joining commands together in bash

[Random832]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:14:14AM -0700, Berenice wrote:
> The information people have posted has been really helpful! 

thanks

> > the [ x.... != x ] construct has never made much sense to me, when
> > simply [ -n ...] works fine
> 
> So [ -n...] is equivalent to [ x..!=x ] ?  I couldn't find -n in man
> bash.

i was looking in man [

it seems to be undocumented but works in bash

and, the >& was explained elsewhere correctly.