On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:16 PM, hggdh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am not sure I follow you. If you look at the man page, or if you run
> '/usr/bin/[ --help' you will see the following disclaimer:
>
> "NOTE: [ honors the --help and --version options, but test does not.
> test treats each of those as it treats any other nonempty STRING.".
>
> I will keep it open, then, waiting for your reply, but I still do not
> see it as a bug.

My point is that if it is in the man file, and it doesn't apply to the
executable at runtime, then that should be considered a bug upstream
with coreutils...
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/usr/bin/test and /usr/bin/[ are two different executables, but share the same 
man page, and the options specified within are therefore incorrect
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259894
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