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- From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: /bin/test bug?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.185301.9438@prl.dec.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 18:53:01 GMT
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- In article <667312@athena.lkg.dec.com>, mamros@athena.lkg.dec.com (Shawn Mamros) writes:
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- > I just tried both
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- > % /bin/test 's' = 's'
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- Hmm... Perhaps you misread the article, he said:
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- test -s = -s
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- I've always thought in that case test's operation would at best be ambiguous.
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- Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
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