On 11/25/22 4:02 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Hi!
I wrote a script, and am trying it on many systems. On RHEL8, which has
bash 4, it didn't work. I could reduce the problem to the following
command, which never returns true:
test -v 1;
This is a bash feature. I cribbed it from ksh93, and it first appeared in
bash-4.2.
The initial implementation was restricted to shell variables -- positional
parameters like $1 are not shell variables.
After a bunch of requests, like
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-12/msg00098.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-12/msg00104.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2020-01/msg00027.html
I added support for testing positional parameters in bash-5.1.
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