On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:12:19AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:43:23PM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote:
> > + if test `expr "X$rmfiles" : ".*"` -gt $max_cmd_len; then
>
> How portable is "test -gt"? The Goat book doesn't list it as a portable
> test operator:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_216.html
I have some recollection of there being a `test' that has no numeric
operations -- hence their absence from the Goat book. Unfortunately I
don't recall which platform in particular :-(
That said, I see some uses of -gt in autoconf, so I guess that in
practice, there are no real users that are affected by this problem any
more...
Cheers,
Gary.
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