On 2006-06-20, Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> It's my understanding that test ! is more portable than ! test (same
>> for [ !).
>
> I would be very surprised to know why.
The autoconf manual, section 10.10 "Limitations of Shell Builtins" (in
the CVS HEAD version at least) says:
`!'
The Unix version 7 shell did not support negating the exit status
of commands with `!', and this feature is still absent from more
modern shells (e.g., Solaris `/bin/sh'). [...]
So the answer these days seems to be "Solaris". It's certainly still
true on the sourceforge box which is running Solaris 2.9.
Cheers,
Olly
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