Debian Developers - Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

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Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

Thomas Bushnell BSG

2006-11-15, 1:21 pm

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:40 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:37:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
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> [Little OT]
>
> Minor historical detail if someone is interested: 'test' in coreutils
> comes from sh-utils, and sh-utils changelog has this entry:
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> 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 :-)

The *file* comes from bash. The *feature* does not.

Thomas