Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com> writes: > Two points are of interest about your test --help question. One is > that unless you are careful you are getting the shell builtin test and > not the external standalone test program.
In addition to Bob's excellent points, there is one more thing to consider: the alternate spelling of test DOES support the --help option. Given that your system is Ubuntu, you can probably do: /bin/[ --help to see the help output corresponding to coreutils' test. -- Eric Blake
