| Gabor Gombas 2006-11-15, 1:21 pm |
| On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:37:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> I'm a little confused. When I use "test -a", I'm not using a "bash
> feature"; I'm using a *test* feature, supported by /usr/bin/test for as
> long as it's existed, IIRC.
[Little OT]
Minor historical detail if someone is interested: 'test' in coreutils
comes from sh-utils, and sh-utils changelog has this entry:
Sun Aug 11 18:10:30 1991 David J. MacKenzie (djm at wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu)
[...]
* test.c: New file, from bash.
So you in fact _are_ using a bash feature, and there was a time when
/usr/bin/test did not even exist (but hey, neither did Debian :-)
But this is not really relevant in the current discussion.
Gabor
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