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Re: test -lt inconsistent about white space
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: test -lt inconsistent about white space |
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Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:09:09 -0400 |
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On 10/29/23 6:18 AM, Oğuz wrote:
legal_number was isint, which skipped both leading and trailing space
using the whitespace macro.
Yes, 30 years ago. legal_number switched to using strtol(3) in 1997
(bash-2.02) and strtoimax in 2002 (bash-2.05b).
The fact that this whitespace issue hasn't been reported since then shows
how obscure it is.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Re: test -lt inconsistent about white space, Martin D Kealey, 2023/10/29
Re: test -lt inconsistent about white space, Chet Ramey, 2023/10/30