On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: > test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the > exit code. ... > As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in > to many shells, as the behavior there is defined by the shell. > Generally though, /usr/bin/test and bash test should work the same....
It turns out that I was mistaken and the script was in fact invoking the bash built-in test (the /usr/bin/test stuff was my overactive imagination). /usr/bin/test is still weird, as Eric Bliss said, because it doesn't print help and version info the way the manpage says it should. A difference between the two tests is that, for /usr/bin/test, a non-zero exit status means false, whereas bash test resolves to a non-zero value when true. Haven't had time to take another look at the bash script I was wrestling with. So still not sure whether bash test is being weird as well. -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
