On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:28:42AM +0200, dexen deVries wrote:
> the man page of test(1) mentions "-l string" as string length operator
> for -eq, -gt, etc.
> but there seems to be nothing in the plan9port's src/cmd/test.c, nor
> in 9p.io/sources/cmd/test.c
>
> is there any implementation of this floating around?
>
Sure, in the research unix releases (e.g. [1]). No idea why it got
dropped en route to today. Further: unknown why someone cared enough
to drop the feature but not enough to fix the man page.
khm
1 -
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/Research-V7-Snapshot-Development/usr/src/cmd/test.c
