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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: /bin/test broken ?
In-reply-to: <19991223040949.D4940@high.net.ru>; from vlad@high.net.ru on Thu,
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To: Vlad Skvortsov <vlad@high.net.ru>
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On 1999-Dec-23 12:09:49 +1100, Vlad Skvortsov <vlad@high.net.ru> wrote:
>	Seems like /bin/test is broken after cvsup on Dec 16:
>
>	$ /bin/test 1 -ne 0 ]
>	[: ]: unexpected operator

What behaviour were you expecting?  That command should have been
expressed as either:
	$ /bin/test 1 -ne 0
or	$ [ 1 -ne 0 ]

Mixing `test' and `]' is not allowed, so producing an error message is
the correct response.

That said, the error message should have been:
	test: ]: unexpected operator
and it is not clear why you are getting `[' reported as the program
name.  As far as I can tell, nothing related to test or errx(3) has
been updated recently.  (I'm not actually running -stable, so I can't
confirm the behaviour).

Peter


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