Re: negate if condition

From: Sven Mascheck (cus.k.mascheck_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 10/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:21:52 +0200 (CEST)

Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:

>> [ if ! ... ]
> Though /bin/sh on HPUX 11.11 (based on ksh88f)
> supports it, /bin/ksh doesn't, but I couldn't find any version
> information on it (except that it's some sort of ksh88).

I always believed, that it's actually an "original" ksh88;
although repeatedly modified by HP with patches (probably
selected bugfixes).

If so, this was perhaps done for similar reasons like
not upgrading the traditional Bourne shell from SVR2 to
later variants, that is, not changing release-special
behaviour?

[xpost c.s.h.hpux, fup2 c.u.shell]