From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24151 invoked from network); 9 Dec 1998 10:27:36 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Dec 1998 10:27:36 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id FAA16693; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 05:25:49 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 05:25:43 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <9812091003.AA57642@ibmth.df.unipi.it> To: Timothy J Luoma Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: help with 'test' command (gnu, not built-in) In-Reply-To: "Timothy J Luoma"'s message of "Wed, 09 Dec 1998 01:02:39 NFT." <199812090602.BAA28585@ocalhost> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:03:53 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson Resent-Message-ID: <"JSstW1.0.Q44.c0bRs"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1970 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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). -- Peter Stephenson Tel: +39 050 844536 WWW: http://www.ifh.de/~pws/ Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy