latest coreutils wrongly assume the same behavior for both test and [
programs.
however, whereas it's ok for test to be called as in "test toto -eq
tata ]" , "[" call must be finished by a "]" as in "[ toto -eq tata ]"
this bug is often silently unseen because most shells (especially most
used ones such as bash, zsh and the like) provide a builtin [ command,
thus hiding this bug.
csh like shells such as tcsh do not provide builtin [ command and thus
unhide this bug.
see http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6736 for reference
the following patch fix that bug:
--- ./src/test.c.tv 2004-01-07 12:36:21.000000000 +0100
+++ ./src/test.c 2004-01-07 13:06:06.000000000 +0100
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@
argv = margv;
- if (LBRACKET)
+ if (strcmp (margv[0], "[") != 0)
{
/* Recognize --help or --version, but only when invoked in the
"[" form, and when the last argument is not "]". POSIX
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