Thanks for your report. There does indeed seem to be a problem on
HP-UX. I am filing a defect against it.
> ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # test -d man???
> ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # echo $?
> 0
> ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # echo $USERDIR/work/man???
> /home/user/work/man000 /home/user/work/man001 /home/user/work/man002 /home/user/
What shell are you using? 'test' is a builtin to the shell. On HP-UX
this might be /bin/sh, /bin/ksh, /bin/csh, etc.
type test
test is a shell builtin
> On Linux:
>
> [root@kasse-ma /home]# echo $USERDIR/work/man???
> /home/work/man100 /home/work/man101 /home/work/man102
> [root@kasse-ma /home]# test -d $USERDIR/work/man???
> test: too many arguments
I was able to recreate your problem on hpux.
On HP-UX:
sh -c 'test -d . one two three;echo $?'
0
But IMNHO that is incorrect behavior. The GNU utilities and probably
the bash shell(?) are implementing correct behavior. Those extra
arguments should not be there. This is apparently covering up a bug
in the shell script.
> [root@kasse-ma bin]# ./test --version
> test (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
> [root@kasse-ma bin]# ./test -d $USERDIR/work/man???
> ./test: zuviele Argumente
The GNU sh-utils version of test.
> [root@kasse-ma bin]# test -d $USERDIR/work/man???
> test: too many arguments
The shell builtin version of test. At a guess this is apparently an
older version without locale support.
> Any chance to get returncode 0 ?
I will argue against it since it hides a shell code programming bug.
It is much better to fix the script code not to have that bug instead.
As documented the test -d option takes a single name of a file and
your example is handing it more than one. There is an ambiguity if
you allow sometimes ignored arguments.
Suggestions:
If you want to test each filename in turn from the globbing you should
use a for loop.
for file in $USERDIR/work/man???; do
if [ -d "$file" ]; then
echo $file is a directory
else
echo $file is not a directory
fi
done
If you only care about the first file name then only test the first one.
for file in $USERDIR/work/man???; do
if [ -d "$file" ]; then
echo $file is a directory
fi
break
done
Bob
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