* help with 'test' command (gnu, not built-in)
@ 1998-12-09 6:02 Timothy J Luoma
1998-12-09 10:03 ` Peter Stephenson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Timothy J Luoma @ 1998-12-09 6:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
GNU utilities no longer maintain 'man' pages (thanks bunches for that,
whoever decided on that one) so I usually use the '--help' flag.
Unfortunately I can't get anything out of GNU-test which wants
{--help}
as an argument.
These are some of the things I have tried: (zsh 3.1.4)
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test {--help}
which gives me:
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test: too many arguments
zsh: 28553 exit 1 /usr/local/gnu/bin/test - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ;
< = > ? @ A B C D E F G
all the rest exit with code = 0
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test \{--help\}
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test \{\-\-help\}
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test "\{\-\-help\}"
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test '{--help}'
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test "{--help}"
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test '\{--help\}'
/usr/local/gnu/bin/test "\{--help\}"
I must have something turned on that is preventing zsh from doing this
right, or else I am dumb as a post, which is possible.
Thanks for any clues
TjL
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* Re: help with 'test' command (gnu, not built-in)
1998-12-09 6:02 help with 'test' command (gnu, not built-in) Timothy J Luoma
@ 1998-12-09 10:03 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-12-09 11:09 ` Bruce Stephens
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Peter Stephenson @ 1998-12-09 10:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Timothy J Luoma; +Cc: zsh-users
Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> Unfortunately I can't get anything out of GNU-test which wants
>
> {--help}
Are you sure it's not just `--help' with a funny convention for
displaying optional arguments? If it's right as you've written it,
'{--help}' is more or less guaranteed to work (except nothing in zsh
is quite guaranteed).
--
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* Re: help with 'test' command (gnu, not built-in)
1998-12-09 10:03 ` Peter Stephenson
@ 1998-12-09 11:09 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-12-10 23:03 ` Timothy J Luoma
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bruce Stephens @ 1998-12-09 11:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Peter Stephenson <pws@ibmth.df.unipi.it> writes:
> Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> > Unfortunately I can't get anything out of GNU-test which wants
> >
> > {--help}
>
> Are you sure it's not just `--help' with a funny convention for
> displaying optional arguments? If it's right as you've written it,
> '{--help}' is more or less guaranteed to work (except nothing in zsh
> is quite guaranteed).
I'm sure it must be `--help' with braces just for clarity. I don't
have GNU test installed here, but all the GNU programs I have which
accept --help, accept it just as written (and these all work fine with
zsh---zsh doesn't normally do anything special with --help, although
it's probably possible to change this), and this behaviour is in the
guidelines for GNU programs. It would be very surprising if test was
an exception.
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* Re: help with 'test' command (gnu, not built-in)
1998-12-09 11:09 ` Bruce Stephens
@ 1998-12-10 23:03 ` Timothy J Luoma
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Timothy J Luoma @ 1998-12-10 23:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-users
Author: Bruce Stephens <b.stephens@isode.com>
Date: 09 Dec 1998 11:09:09 +0000
ID: <vbyaoh7esq.fsf@snake.isode.com>
> It would be very surprising if test was
> an exception.
Indeed, it isn't an exception, it was pilot error.
There is some program (which one I can't recall, but common enough that it
surprised me) where I had to escape the 'help' flag.
But it indeed wasn't 'test'
Again my body had stayed up later than my brain
TjL
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