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Re: Why does builtin 'test' differ from /usr/bin/test

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: "zsh-users Mailinglist" <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Why does builtin 'test' differ from /usr/bin/test
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:30:50 +0000
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"Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3" wrote:
>   test -a = '-?' -o -a = '?' && echo true           # true
> 
> Why is the first (builtin) test true?

It looks like you've got an old version of zsh; it's returned false
since at least 4.2.  I can see it returned true in 3.0.6 (Solaris 8).

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