Re: [Patch #41] Do all rm's in one command with --mode=clean

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:12:19AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:43:23PM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote:
> > +      if test `expr "X$rmfiles" : ".*"` -gt $max_cmd_len; then
> 
> How portable is "test -gt"?  The Goat book doesn't list it as a portable
> test operator:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_216.html

I have some recollection of there being a `test' that has no numeric
operations -- hence their absence from the Goat book.  Unfortunately I
don't recall which platform in particular :-(

That said, I see some uses of -gt in autoconf, so I guess that in
practice, there are no real users that are affected by this problem any
more...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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