Hello.
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 08:45:11 -0500,
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:24:23PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > >>> Please try
> > >>> % bash -c 'test ! -a . && echo true'
> > >>> and compare with the result of
> > >>> % bash -c '/usr/bin/test ! -a . && echo true'
>
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:29:15PM +0900, OZAKI Masanobu wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > (On my system, there is no -a unary operator in the test(1) man page, but
> > the command apparently supports one, undocumented. Isn't this fun?)
>
> Neither on my system. I found descriptions of the -a u
> "help test" says:
>
> See the bash manual page bash(1) for the handling of
> parameters (i.e., missing parameters).
>
> which does not really tempt me to look at the manual.
You should probably ask the person who added that to Debian's version of
bash.
> bash(1) says:
>
> E
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:24:23PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >>> Please try
> >>> % bash -c 'test ! -a . && echo true'
> >>> and compare with the result of
> >>> % bash -c '/usr/bin/test ! -a . && echo true'
imadev:~$ bash -c 'test ! -a . && echo true'
true
imadev:~$ bash -c '/usr/bin/te
tags 426990 - moreinfo
tags 426990 + upstream
# documentation bug
severity 426990 minor
retitle 426990 bash: "help test" gives no hint of complicated precedence rules
quit
OZAKI Masanobu wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 03:17:13 -0500, Jonathan Nieder
> wrote:
>>> Please try
>>> % bash -c 'test
