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From: | Chet Ramey |
Subject: | Re: test or [ does not handle parentheses as stated in manpage |
Date: | Tue, 6 Sep 2022 10:02:24 -0400 |
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On 9/6/22 9:57 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:56:12PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:Ah, thanks! May I suggest that adding this information as a note in the manpage would be very helpful?The man page says, in the `test' description: "Each operator and operand must be a separate argument."Yes, but "(" and ")" are not usually considered to be operators or operands.And I did have them separated, but didn't quote them when I did, so making a comment about that in the manpage would still be helpful.
From QUOTING: "Each of the metacharacters listed above under DEFINITIONS has special meaning to the shell and must be quoted if it is to represent itself." -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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