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> Precisely because those older systems didn’t link to it!

Not to speed up bash scripts? Launching a process for simple if statements such as those checking whether a file exists is fairly expensive.



Ugh, which is why it became a builtin…

Ya’ll are tracing the same logic of the 90s here.




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