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Re: The test command
I'm CC'ing this to bug-coreutils with the full expectation that it'll
bounce because I'm not subscribed.
On Sep 12, 11:20am, Dave Yost wrote:
}
} I propose this addition to the age-old test command:
Unlikely. It breaks backwards compatibility. "test" is one of those
things that's now SO old, that essentially no changes are allowed. [*]
The meaning of
test --verbose
is equivalent to
test --verbose != ''
and there might somewhere be a script that depends upon
string=--verbose
test $string
to work correctly.
} The usefulness of this is shown in this example:
}
} if ! test --verbose -e "$file" ; then
} exit $?
} fi
zmodload -i zsh/system
if ! test -e "$file"; then
syserror >&2
exit $?
fi
[*] Zsh sometimes makes exceptions in places where a syntax error would
occur in the older version of the command, but never in places where the
change would alter the semantics of working syntax.
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