* [9fans] test(1) support for string length (-l) in p9p? @ 2018-04-10 7:28 dexen deVries 2018-04-10 8:08 ` Kurt H Maier 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: dexen deVries @ 2018-04-10 7:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs 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? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] test(1) support for string length (-l) in p9p? 2018-04-10 7:28 [9fans] test(1) support for string length (-l) in p9p? dexen deVries @ 2018-04-10 8:08 ` Kurt H Maier 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Kurt H Maier @ 2018-04-10 8:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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