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The tests you had listed :

  • Single Parenthesis - ( ... ) is creating a subshell
  • Double Parenthesis - (( ... )) is for arithmetic operation
  • Single Square Bracket - [ ... ] is the syntax for the POSIX test
  • Double Square Brackets - [[ ... ]] is the syntax for bash conditional expressions (similar to test but more powerful)
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