From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] test(1) support for string length (-l) in p9p?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 01:08:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180410080801.GA82771@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJUT6o58=Ysk8RMbvbEsn39cpW04RkjEz351GQfROxTc7Et+9g@mail.gmail.com>
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
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