On 9/6/22 9:57 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 02:56:12PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
Ah, thanks!  May I suggest that adding this information as a note in
the manpage would be very helpful?

The man page says, in the `test' description:

"Each operator and operand must be a separate argument."

Yes, but "(" and ")" are not usually considered to be operators or
operands.

And I did have them separated, but didn't quote them when I did, so
making a comment about that in the manpage would still be helpful.

From QUOTING:

"Each  of  the metacharacters listed above under DEFINITIONS has special
 meaning to the shell and must be quoted if it is to represent itself."

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