On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 09:28, Jeff Vian wrote: > > When I do 'man bash' I can't find any instance of -z, any ideas where > > it came from? > > > -z is one of the options to test > man test > [] is an alias for test Sort-of. Both [ and test are shell built-ins that do the equivalent of /usr/bin/test without having to start another program. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx