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Re: Strange (wrong?) behaviour of "test ! -a file"
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Ilkka Virta |
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Re: Strange (wrong?) behaviour of "test ! -a file" |
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Sun, 21 Oct 2018 21:24:24 +0300 |
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On 21.10. 20:03, Chet Ramey wrote:
The help text for test says
"The behavior of test depends on the number of arguments. Read the
bash manual page for the complete specification."
Can I suggest adding that note from the help text to the manual under
"Bash Conditional Expressions" too? Perhaps also explicitly noting the
clash with the binary operators in the descriptions of -a and -o, too.
Something along the lines of the attached patch.
I also think the description of the 3-argument test would be clearer
with numbering, so I added that too.
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Ilkka Virta / itvirta@iki.fi
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