Hello again! Paul Eggert wrote: > Bernhard Voelker wrote: > > I don't think we can remove that primary without breaking some > > scripts, so it's probably best to document it. > > I have the opposite impression. Any scripts using this confusing -a > operator are already broken, and we should phase it out. Not that > anybody actually *uses* coreutils "test -a".
Maybe even more important than the previous arguments - there's no filetest "-a" in the POSIX standard: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html Best regards, Martin
