Re: [ ! ! hey ] -> [: too many arguments

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

One more, and orry for the late reply, i waited until i could test
also SunOS 5.9 test(1) (binary from 2002-04-07!).

Emanuele Torre wrote in
 <CAA7hNqcVUgOAcv7tfsAK38jBmc6ABsmswkn5ZVYSa4A2en6p9w@mail.gmail.com>:
 |On 22/06/23 11:08 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 ...
 |    bash-5.1$ test ! ! hey         ; printf %s\\n "$?"
 ...
 |test(1) needs to treat the 0 to 4 arguments expressions specially
 |according to POSIX so the bug is probably only in the code that
 |implements those special cases.

Anyhow it seems bash(1) [/test diverges from _all_ test(1)'s
in my reach (SunOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, busybox, GNU
coreutils).  It can do what it wants, of course.

--steffen
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