I found a bug in dash that affects checking the exit status of '[' or 'test' for failure.
After feeding an illegal number to 'test -t', 'test' will not accept any operator (or at least not -gt or -lt) for the next invocation. Confirmed in dash 0.5.7, 0.5.8 and current git version. $ [ -t 12323454234578326584376438 ] src/dash: 7: [: Illegal number: 12323454234578326584376438 $ [ "$?" -gt 1 ] && echo error src/dash: 8: [: -gt: unexpected operator $ [ "$?" -gt 1 ] && echo error error $ test -t 12323454234578326584376438 src/dash: 10: test: Illegal number: 12323454234578326584376438 $ test "$?" -gt 1 && echo error src/dash: 11: test: -gt: unexpected operator $ test "$?" -gt 1 && echo error error $ test -t 12323454234578326584376438 src/dash: 13: test: Illegal number: 12323454234578326584376438 $ test 2 -gt 1 src/dash: 14: test: -gt: unexpected operator $ test 2 -gt 1 $ test -t 12323454234578326584376438 src/dash: 16: test: Illegal number: 12323454234578326584376438 $ test 2 -lt 1 src/dash: 17: test: -lt: unexpected operator $ test 2 -lt 1 $ Thanks, - Martijn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
