From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Builtin test and parsing of conditionals
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:15:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <130904091503.ZM28369@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
According to some discussion on the austin-group (POSIX) mailing list,
the following:
test ! -a !
test ! -o !
test ! = !
should all be parsed as comparing the string "!" to the string "!", but
zsh gets this right only in the last case.
This is especially annoying because
test ! -f !
should be interpreted as the negation of the unary file-exists operator.
This is probably complicated by the different meanings of -a and -o in
[[ ... ]] as opposed to "test" because the same parser is used.
Furthermore:
test ! = -o a
should be parsed as the negation of the comparison between the strings "="
and "a", implying that zsh also gets this wrong:
test ! = = =
which should return false (negation of (equal is the same string as equal)),
rather than give a parse error as zsh does. (Zsh does get
test = = =
right.)
Apparently the only way to do this correctly is to examine both argv[1] and
the number of arguments, and skip to argv[2] for recursive descent parsing
when argv[1] is "!" and there are four arguments. (As already mentioned in
the zsh manual, what to do with more than four arguments in the absence of
explicit parens is unclear [unspecified?].)
next reply other threads:[~2013-09-04 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-04 16:15 Bart Schaefer [this message]
2013-09-04 16:31 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-09-04 17:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-09-04 19:09 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-09-05 14:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2013-09-06 19:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2013-09-04 20:15 ` Chet Ramey
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