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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: bin/6087: sh doesn't work properly on certain configuration scripts
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> Could someone please look up the Posix standard for test(1)?

I think it says that `test <arg>' is equivalent to `test -n <arg>'.
In `test -n', `-n' is a primary, not an operator.  The man page
documents this reasonably well.

Bruce

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