The latest docker hub image has files [ and [[ in it.
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szegedim commented
tianon commented
See the very relevant second half of the answer in tianon/docker-brew-ubuntu-core#156 (comment) -- [
and [[
are shell utilities, and in this case the ones we have in /usr/bin
come directly from our Alpine base image and if you check what they're symlinks to you'll see they're part of busybox
:
$ docker run -it --rm alpine:3.10
/ # help
Built-in commands:
------------------
. : [ [[ alias bg break cd chdir command continue echo eval exec
exit export false fg getopts hash help history jobs kill let
local printf pwd read readonly return set shift source test times
trap true type ulimit umask unalias unset wait
In a POSIX shell, [
is typically an alias for the test
built-in utility, and [[
is typically a Bashism, but it's one that Busybox supports to a certain extent.
If you use either of [
or [[
from Bash, it will not invoke these versions from /usr/bin
but will instead invoke its own built-in implementations of their functionality.