* Stepan Kasal wrote on Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:20:03AM CET:
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:42:24PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > 2) The autoconf manual says you cannot use `test ! -d' with `if'.
> >
> > Where does it say that? I couldn't find it.
>
> under the description of bultin `test',
> line 11085 of doc/autoconf.texi, currently.
I think this:
| You may use @samp{!} with @command{test}, but not with @command{if}:
| @samp{test ! -r foo || exit 1}.
means that you may use
if test ! ...
but not
if ! test ...
portably.
Regards,
Ralf
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