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Re: About 'test' compatibility
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- From: DervishD <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: About 'test' compatibility
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:39:45 +0100
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- Reply-to: DervishD <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Sender: DervishD <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Hello Bart :)
>> >Can you give an example of the way this is failing?
>> 	if [ "$DEFAULT" = "-d" -a -n "$3" ]; then
>>     Maybe the '-n' following '-a' is confusing zsh?
>No, it's the -d in $DEFAULT that's confusing it.  When $DEFAULT is
>-d, zsh is treating the above as "if there is a directory named `='
>..."
    Just curiosity: why BASH doesn't fail here too? The 'test'
builtin of the Bourne shell has the '-d' too.
>This should be written as
>	if [ "x$DEFAULT" = "x-d" -a -n "$3" ]; then
>or something similar.
    I'll notify the maintainer. Thanks for your help :)
    Raúl
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