Re: bash builtin test changes in 2.04

[Andreas Schwab]

unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) writes:

|> There seems to have been a change in teh behaviour of the bash builtin
|> test or [
|> In particular, the ( EXPRESSION ) syntax seems to have changed so that
|> [ ! ( -z "$USER" -o -z $PS1 ) ] 
|> gives and error when it worked in 2.03. It forthermore works for the gnu
|> /usr/bin/test. Has tehre been a change and why?

I doubt it has ever worked, because `(' and `)' are meta characters that
must be quoted if used outside their dedicated places in the syntax.

Andreas.

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