From: DervishD <raul@viadomus.com>
To: schaefer@brasslantern.com
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: About 'test' compatibility
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:39:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C7C00A1.mail3E1WHBAN@viadomus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202261259290.14523-100000@ns1.sodaware.com>
Hello Bart :)
>> >Can you give an example of the way this is failing?
>> if [ "$DEFAULT" = "-d" -a -n "$3" ]; then
>> Maybe the '-n' following '-a' is confusing zsh?
>No, it's the -d in $DEFAULT that's confusing it. When $DEFAULT is
>-d, zsh is treating the above as "if there is a directory named `='
>..."
Just curiosity: why BASH doesn't fail here too? The 'test'
builtin of the Bourne shell has the '-d' too.
>This should be written as
> if [ "x$DEFAULT" = "x-d" -a -n "$3" ]; then
>or something similar.
I'll notify the maintainer. Thanks for your help :)
Raúl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-26 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 20:07 DervishD
2002-02-26 20:16 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-26 20:28 ` DervishD
2002-02-26 21:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-26 21:39 ` DervishD [this message]
2002-02-26 22:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-27 10:36 ` DervishD
2002-02-28 5:47 ` Bart Schaefer
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