The following is a bug reported for the Debian ksh package. Thanks

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Date:    Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:46:41 +0100
From:    Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:      Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug#455824: ksh: "test \( ! -e \)" yields an error

Package: ksh
Version: 93s+20071105-1
Severity: normal

According to POSIX[*], "test \( ! -e \)" is a 4-argument test and is
here equivalent to "test ! -e". But ksh93 yields an error:

$ test \( ! -e \) || echo $?
ksh93: test: argument expected
2
$ test ! -e || echo $?      
1

The "test" utility from the Coreutils is correct:

$ /usr/bin/test \( ! -e \) || echo $?
1

[*] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/test.html

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ksh depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries

ksh recommends no packages.

- -- no debconf information




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