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Author Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
Bruce Sass

2006-11-15, 7:29 pm

On Wed November 15 2006 10:23, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:40 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
>
> The *file* comes from bash. The *feature* does not.


Since the file was used to provide both the bash builtin and the
standalone test, and -a is undocumented in the test manpage, it is most
likely a bash feature... why not use -e, which is documented and
available in dash, bash, and test?


- Bruce


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