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by colejohnson66 3684 days ago
I'd say the usage of -lt and the like is because angle brackets are used for piping data.
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wvenable 3684 days ago
The shell is a mess of symbols making any sane programming language impossible. Instead of perhaps rethinking the "mess of symbols" issue they ruined the language instead.
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