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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:15:19 -0400
From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
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Subject: Re: conditional expressions (incompatible with ksh)
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> Any idea what the correct behavior should be?

The POSIX-correct behavior should be to produce
unspecified results, since -a as a unary primary
is a bashism/kshism and not POSIX-compliant.

Use -e instead.