The following is a bug reported for the Debian ksh package. Thanks ------- Forwarded Message
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 ------- End of Forwarded Message _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
