From: Bruce Stephens <b.stephens@isode.com>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: help with 'test' command (gnu, not built-in)
Date: 09 Dec 1998 11:09:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vbyaoh7esq.fsf@snake.isode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Peter Stephenson's message of "Wed, 09 Dec 1998 11:03:53 +0100"
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-09 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-09 6:02 Timothy J Luoma
1998-12-09 10:03 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-12-09 11:09 ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
1998-12-10 23:03 ` Timothy J Luoma
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