From: Trek <trek00@inbox.ru>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: test is not posix
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:06:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160120220614.18fe6683@enterprise> (raw)
the -n and -z options of the test utility are not posixly correct if the
argument is "!", "(", ")" or "-a"
with a posix shell:
$ sh -c 'test -n "!" && echo ok'
ok
with zsh called as sh:
$ zsh/sh -c 'test -n "!" && echo ok'
zsh:test:1: too many arguments
a workaround exist:
$ zsh/sh -c 'test "X!" != "X" && echo ok'
ok
but the posix standard requires -n and -z to be safe even if the
argument is '!' or '(':
The two commands: test "$1" and test ! "$1" could not be used reliably
on some historical systems. Unexpected results would occur if such a
string expression were used and $1 expanded to '!', '(', or a known
unary primary. Better constructs are: test -n "$1" and test -z "$1"
respectively.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html#tag_20_128_16
I discovered this bug developing a small shell library, where you can
find an use case in the n_str_set function of the lib/str.sh file
included in http://www.trek.eu.org/devel/naive/naive-0.0.2.tar.gz
c-ya!
next reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-20 21:06 Trek [this message]
2016-01-20 21:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-01-20 21:44 ` Trek
2016-01-20 23:46 ` Martijn Dekker
2016-01-21 12:41 ` Peter Stephenson
2016-01-21 13:06 ` [BUG] 'test' returns 1 (not >1) on error [was: test is not posix] Martijn Dekker
2016-01-21 16:20 ` Peter Stephenson
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