I know that there are use cases for [ ] over [[ ]]. There have to be. Why in god’s name would [ ] exist if there wasn’t a reason to use it over [[ ]]? I’m obviously the one in the wrong by only ever using [[ ]], because [ ] would definitely be better in some type of situations that I’m just not seeing clearly. Right???

I believe the reason is that bash is backwards compatible with sh and sh only has [ ], not [[ ]]

Solution: fuck backwards compatibility and use fish

Fish is starting to get more POSIX compliant as of late, the error redirect is no longer ^ /dev/null but 2>/dev/null

Fish might be good for interactivity, but in terms of scripting, just go straight to python. It’s not worth it.

[ is a binary (sometimes a symlink) in /usr/bin. It’s /usr/bin/[ 🤓

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[[ is not a POSIX shell feature.

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